Gadgets & Gizmos: iPhone Duo problems, making salt safer & reinventing pliers

So what else? What have the bods thought of now? Well, Amazon released a whole raft Or slew, those are the two words that tech journalists like to use for new products.

Yes, why is a raft considered big? I don't know.

I have

no idea.

I don't know what a slew is, but it's a good word.

A slew is like a slightly smaller raft, I think.

Okay.

Of new products, a new Echo Dot, a new Echo Studio with a camera built in, so it knows who you are when you walk up to it.

A new Echo Show with a camera and a screen built in.

And a new Echo picture frame, which is a picture frame with Alexa built in, so you can play your music and tell it what pictures you want to see.

So the question is, how do you keep on top of all of these Amazon gadgets? And if you've got smart Alexa-powered lights and things around your house, how do you keep track of them? The answer is the Home Map, which is their new technique where you scan your home with your iPhone.

and it creates a map of your phone and then you can drag devices onto the map for where they're located and then when you say turn a light on using the app it'll light up on the map

well that's quite clever do you think it's quite useful

No. Oh.

I also think that it's likely that Amazon are going to look around your house and say, oh, look, he's got quite an old microwave.

Let's see if we can sell him a new one.

Okay.

Anyway,

talking of

microwaves...

Well, go back to the Amazon thing just for one second.

And have you had this thing, because you were the one who got me into Echoes and all that sort of things, and dots, whatever they're called.

I resisted for a long time.

But I now have four other things.

And what I find quite irritating is you tell one in one room to do something, and it ignores you, and one in another room does something.