Amazon Echo Look – Hands-Free Camera and Style Assistant

<i>By sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, Winston was able to remain outside the range of the Amazon® Echo Look™, so far as sight went. He could be heard, of course, but so long as he stayed in his present position he could not be seen.</i>

Last time this was posted, people thought it was a joke, because who would ever want this thing?<p>My sisters and my mom would <i>absolutely</i> use this thing. I&#x27;m sure they would think it was really, really cool.<p>(Granted, that is only 2 in 5 sisters, I&#x27;m sure the other 3 would think it was silly)<p>Never forget that you live in a bubble. Better yet, try to identify the boundaries of your bubble, and try to move outside of them.

&quot;I&#x27;m sorry Dave, that belt doesn&#x27;t go with your shirt&quot;

Also posted seven days ago, see here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14203594" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14203594</a><p>It appears the Echo Look is available by invitation only. Has anyone been able to get their hands on one?

After Twitter, emoji, AirBnB, the resurgence of GIFs, and President Trump; I have admitted to myself that I have absolutely no aptitude for predicting success.<p>That said, this is _surely_ going to flop...

I can see what they are trying to do with this but the sort of person who takes outfit photos doesn&#x27;t just take 1 photo they take 200 (and in different locations) and they certainly wont post it to social media without heavily editing it first.<p>The only use I can think for it is a convenient way to track which outfits you wear so you can remember what you paired with what but you could just as easily hold your phone in your hand and take a quick photo without the faff of syncing to get the photos on your phone!

I can understand Amazon Echo. I have one, even though I&#x27;m aware of the risks and most of the time am really paranoid about such things, I still use it (for playing music and setting timers or getting news&#x2F;weather).<p>I can&#x27;t, however, understand the Echo Look. I know people like to take selfies and have no problem blasting them out into the internet, but I think Amazon is really playing the risk card here. A camera watching you undress.. what could go wrong?!

Does anyone have insight on how or why this product appeals to its target audience? Seems like a selfie app on the phone could achieve just the same?

I feel like I&#x27;m missing a trick here.<p>I&#x27;m just clearly not the demographic for this, because though the echo is a popular device, damned if I can figure out what the hell its use case is *that the phone in your pocket can&#x27;t already do.<p>This adds a camera to the formula and I&#x27;m more confused.<p>So they&#x27;re building a modern cellular telephone in reverse?

How secure is Echo? I presume that it uses HTTPS. But let&#x27;s say that your LAN is pwned. Could an adversary MitM the connection, and exfiltrate traffic? I can imagine lulz.

A dedicated selfie cam that you can also talk to? I anticipate great success. And then massive backlash from the next gen.