Alexa Gets Hooked Up To a Singing Fish Toy, and Mocked By Jimmy Kimmel (mashable.com) 18
An anonymous reader writes: An updated version of the singing "Big Mouth Billy Bass" plastic fish toy now speaks (with synchronized lip movements) with the voice of Alexa. "Your humdrum life will be totally uprooted because you hung a talking fish on your wall," jokes Fast Company. "Just imagine setting an alarm and being woken up by a Big Mouth Billy Bass dancing and flopping around while it sings to you," adds Mashable.
But more than half the device's 100 reviews from Amazon customer's award it just one star (with another 15% awarding two stars). "The programming on these fish are awful," wrote one reviewer, complaining that the sound continues coming from the Echo device (rather than through the fish's speaker), and when it does actualy sync to the music, "the tail flaps and head movements are off-beat and look terrible."
Meanwhile, late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel recently staged a skit with a carolling "choir" of Amazon's smart speakers dressed in Christmas sweaters and caps — a skit which ends with the devices producing a horrific cacophony that Kimmel was unable stop. Kimmel then instructs a stagehand to bring the choir of singing Alexa units "to the ocean, and dump it in."
But more than half the device's 100 reviews from Amazon customer's award it just one star (with another 15% awarding two stars). "The programming on these fish are awful," wrote one reviewer, complaining that the sound continues coming from the Echo device (rather than through the fish's speaker), and when it does actualy sync to the music, "the tail flaps and head movements are off-beat and look terrible."
Meanwhile, late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel recently staged a skit with a carolling "choir" of Amazon's smart speakers dressed in Christmas sweaters and caps — a skit which ends with the devices producing a horrific cacophony that Kimmel was unable stop. Kimmel then instructs a stagehand to bring the choir of singing Alexa units "to the ocean, and dump it in."
Re: (Score:2, Insightful)
Bring back girls on trampolines!
"Mocked By Jimmy Kimmel" (Score:1, Offtopic)
So, badge of honor.
Re: (Score:2, Interesting)
The idiot mocked Trump supporters as meth addicts.
Aww, feelings hurt much?
I wonder whether he would hang himself if he found out that the racial statistics behind meth use have switched since 10 years ago or such from white trash using it to blacks moving from crack to meth by a good portion.
Could you provide a citation for that? All the available data seems to state the opposite, but everything I can find is pretty old. samhsa.gov seems to be designed to hide information on this subject, they have a quick link to data on cocaine and opioids but not meth. (They also require javascript even though their site appears to do nothing which requires it...)
When they have a low battery they sound cool! (Score:2)
When they have a low battery they sound cool!