The way the screen slowly but steadily turns, occasionally struggling to find you, makes it feel a bit more dopey than creepy.īasically a rotating tablet attached to a speaker, the Echo Show 10 doesn’t look to life-like, which helps it seem less creepy when it moves. If it had face-like characteristics or even an attentive tone in its voice when responding, it would seem more alive and thus more disconcerting. Before long, you grow accustomed to it.Īmazon’s straight-laced design in terms of size and shape means that you don’t tend to anthropomorphize (attribute human characteristics or behaviour to an object) the screen. The first few times it turns to face you, it feels your smart screen is possessed. It’s one location where a standard smart screen is impractical because you need to choose whether it faces into one room or the other. Placing it on the bench which divides the kitchen from the dining area seemed like a logical choice. I was prepared for the worst, warning my family before setting up the Amazon Echo Show 10 (3rd Gen) on the kitchen bench to test. You can read other GadgetGuy Amazon news and reviews here Review: Amazon Echo Show 10 (3rd Gen) Australian website Okay, that last point isn’t quite true, but the new Echo Show 10 (3rd Gen) might still sound like the stuff of nightmares to some people.

Go to bed, and it creeps into the room to watch you sleep.

Move around the room, and it uses the camera to follow you. Speak to Alexa, and the screen turns to face you. Amazon’s solution is to take a cylindrical smart speaker and mount a 10-inch screen on the front, which can swivel 175 degrees left or right.

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