{"id":1086,"date":"2017-01-06T18:22:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T00:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2017-02-12T18:32:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T00:32:35","slug":"amazons-alexa-is-belle-of-the-ces-2017-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s Alexa is Belle of the CES 2017 Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/418087\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c6\/Treo.jpg\/320px-Treo.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">You can do better. Photo by kirillt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This year\u2019s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas brought another bumper crop of tech for geeks and gearheads alike.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, this year\u2019s show was more about evolution than revolution. That, and the proliferation of sensors in everything from hairbrushes to toothbrushes. But one technology was clearly the belle of the geek prom: Amazon\u2019s digital assistant, Alexa.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/418087\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon&#8217;s Alexa Shines At CES 2017<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas brought another bumper crop of tech for geeks and gearheads alike. As usual, this year\u2019s show was more about evolution than revolution. That, and the proliferation of sensors in everything from hairbrushes to toothbrushes. But one technology was clearly the belle of the geek prom: Amazon\u2019s digital &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1086\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon&#8217;s Alexa is Belle of the CES 2017 Ball<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,12,94,46,20,13],"tags":[1187,314,1189,1188,130],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-consumer","category-engineering","category-gadgets","category-internet","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-ces","tag-digital-assistants","tag-echo","tag-robotics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}