Amazon Echo coming to The Home Depot and many other retail locations this holiday season

Amazon today revealed that consumers will be able to buy the Amazon Echo through many more popular retailers, including Brookstone, The Home Depot, Radioshack, Fred Meyer, Staples, Sears, P.C. Richard & Son, and more.

Amazon was originally selling the Echo exclusively through its own website and via an online product listing at Staples. Amazon’s experiment at Staples must have been very successful to garner such a big product expansion.

“Amazon Echo is a must-have gift this holiday season, and we’re excited to work with retailers across the country to make Echo available to their customers,” said Greg Hart, Vice President, Amazon Echo and Alexa Voice Services. “Using only your voice to play music, control your lights, and ask questions is magical, so it’s great that people will be able to visit local stores and try it for themselves.”

For those not familiar with Amazon Echo, it’s a hands-free wireless speaker and voice command device. It responds to the wake command “Alexa,” and will try to give any helpful information or actions upon request. For example, Amazon Echo is capable of using its voice interaction abilities to provide traffic information, the weather, playing audiobooks, music playback, podcast streaming, and so much more.

With this latest announcement from Amazon, consumers will be able to head to physical retail locations and actually give Amazon Echo a try before taking it home, which is something that can’t be done when it’s available exclusively online.

source: Amazon

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