Echo Frames, smart glasses, Amazon.com, Inc., Seattle, Washington, USA

Amazon just announced a new pair of Alexa-enabled smart eye glasses. Essentially, Alexa will activate whenever you call out to her, now on a pair of glasses that you can wear around town.

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Amazon's new Echo Frames are a new spin on smart glasses. They don't use any kind of heads-up display, but instead integrate Alexa (or your phone's assistant) into a pair of high tech glasses that manage to look remarkably normal.

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Amazon unveiled their first smart eyeglasses, the Echo Frames, at the company’s Seattle headquarters. Amazon is positioning the glasses as the ultimate take-Alexa-everywhere product, but it’s also trying to balance that pitch with privacy: there’s a button on the glasses to disable its microphones, and the Echo Frames lack any kind of camera.

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The echo frames were just announced today at Amazon's latest 2019 press briefing. With no-onscreen display, and no cameras, its really just Alexa in your glasses. So that you can hear Alexa talking to you, but not the world around you. With gesture controls, and an easy-access microphone, its certainly an interesting pitch from amazon.

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Introducing Echo Frames — all-day glasses with hands-free access to Alexa. Just ask to make calls, set reminders, listen to podcasts, and more from anywhere.

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Amazon still needs to iron out some kinks, particularly with notification handling, but as long as you don’t need high quality audio and can live with annoying alerts, the Echo Frames are a surprisingly appealing product.

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