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First Impressions on Using the Amazon Echo Show to Aid Distributed Work

Ben Halpern on December 07, 2017

We are a small-but-growing team based in New York City. We are primarily based on location at the moment but have had a keen interest from day one ...
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Kevin McGinn • Edited

Have you been using the "drop-in" feature? It seems like it could be a digital equivalent of swinging by someone's desk for an impromptu conversation, with the bonus of being able to throw a blanket over it if you don't want to be pulled out of something you're focusing on.

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Kim Arnett 

To you references of "Can you hear me?"
lifesize.com/bingo/play.html

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Ghost

What exactly are the Amazon Echo Shows? We don't have them in Australia... Are they actually designed for conference/meeting calls, or are you just using them like that?

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Benson Li

supposed to be like a countertop tv but they can be used for multiple purposes ofc