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Amazon announced the Alexa Home Map, a new interface that renders a home as an interactive 3D blueprint with animated icons for connected devices like lights and speakers placed where they physically sit. The map also integrates with outdoor security cameras to depict vehicles, pedestrians and weather conditions like rain or snow in real time, using stylized visualizations rather than photorealistic imagery.
Amazon has launched the Alexa Photo Frame, a 10-inch touchscreen display with an anti-glare finish and wood-like trim designed to mimic a traditional photo frame. It pulls images from Amazon Photos, uses Alexa+ to select and curate photos based on factors like smiles, lighting, or season, and lets users or Alexa voice commands pull up specific photos or people.
Amazon announced a wave of new and updated Echo devices, including the Echo Time smart alarm clock, the Alexa Smart Frame for displaying photos and answering questions via AI, an updated Echo Show 16, refreshed Echo speakers, and a new Echo Studio speaker that includes a camera.
Amazon has released the Echo Studio with Home Camera, an updated version of its high-end smart speaker that now includes a built-in camera for video monitoring and calls. The device retains the original Echo Studio's Dolby Atmos sound system and Alexa+ features, adding new audio tools called Advanced Room Adaptation and Adaptive Volume. It costs $250, $30 more than the camera-free Echo Studio, which remains on sale at $220.
Amazon unveiled the Echo Show 16, a redesigned smart display with a 16-inch full HD screen available in standard or nanomatte finish, the glare-reducing technology first used on the Alexa Tablet 12 Pro. The device is about 40 percent thinner than the Echo Show 15, offers 10 percent more screen area, 20 percent more processing power, a new eight-woofer and two-tweeter audio system, and an upgraded 13-megapixel wide-angle camera with Visual ID recognition now working up to 17 feet away.
Amazon has released the Echo Time, a bedroom-focused smart alarm clock with a 3.2-inch customizable touchscreen offering hundreds of clock faces. It includes smart alarms that use room sensors, presence detection and ultrasound to track sleep and wake users during lighter sleep phases, and omits a camera in favor of microphone-off controls and listening indicators. The device costs $200 and comes in Graphite, Glacier White and Coral.
Amazon introduced its first digital picture frame, the Alexa Photo Frame, at a New York launch event alongside several new Echo-based devices. The 10-inch frame syncs with Amazon Photos, automatically selects what it considers the best images, and lets users ask Alexa to pull up photos of specific people, places or events. Prime members get unlimited photo storage, and the frame includes a light sensor that adjusts brightness and comes in birch or walnut wood casing.
Amazon unveiled the Echo Time, its first smart alarm clock, priced at $200 and shipping in December. The device features a 3.2-inch customizable display, adaptive lighting for wake and sleep routines, and an optional AI mode that uses motion and breathing sensors to delay or adjust alarms within a 60-minute window based on sleep depth. It omits cameras and comes in kid-focused versions with parental controls, part of a broader rollout that included a new Echo Show, Echo Studio and Amazon's first smart picture frame.
Amazon introduced five new smart home products and a new feature on Wednesday, roughly two weeks after Apple revealed its HomeView display and HomePod Mini 2. The lineup includes Echo Time, a $200 camera-free alarm clock with Alexa Plus-powered sleep tracking and an optional smart alarm that wakes users during light sleep, plus a kids' version called Amazon Kids Echo Time that pairs with parental controls via the Amazon Parent Dashboard.
Govee's color-changing Christmas String Lights 2 are discounted across all four sizes at Amazon and Govee's own store, with the 66-foot strand at $74.99, up to the 328-foot set at $259.99. The lights support customizable colors, over 130 preset effects, music syncing, and Matter-based voice control, and are weatherproofed for outdoor use.
Amazon devices chief Panos Panay presented new Echo hardware, including an Echo Show 16 smart display and an Echo Studio with Home Camera, at a press event in New York. He also showed upcoming Alexa software features such as dedicated home screens, a 3D smart-home map view, and meal planning, which will debut on the Show 16 before reaching older Echo Show models.
Amazon has begun shipping most of the new Echo devices it recently announced, among them a bedside alarm clock built around sleep tracking rather than a camera. The device uses ultrasound to detect sleep stages and can trigger smart alarms timed to ease users awake, an optional feature users can turn off.