Portable Echo Dot Speaker Dock with Power Bank
- IMPORTANT: This is compatible with Amazon Echo Dot 2nd Generation (but doesn’t come with it). It’s not compatible with the newest one, which just came out.
- That said, since it just came out, you probably haven’t gotten it yet.
- Which means this thing should work just fine for most people.
- We just need to cover our bases here.
- It’s wireless, which means Alexa can finally be free!
- It is also (leans forward, whispers) a recharging speaker dock.
- WEEE-OOOOOW WEEE-OOOOW, SPEAKER DOCK ALERT! SPEAKER DOCK ALERT!
- Model: MOKCAO_POWER+. Ah, the ol’ “Just the whole friggin’ name” model number. Been a while since we’ve seen one of these.
Helpful, Eventually
This MOKCAO POWER+ Cordless Speaker is compatible with the 2nd Generation Amazon Echo Dot, which essentially means this is a vessel for Alexa. She’s called a “digital assistant” but it’s around now, in the fall, where she begins to feel entirely digital and of little assistance.
Alexa can’t rake leaves, and she’s terrible with a leaf blower. Ditto for scraping the frost from your car’s windshield.
You can ask her to help bring the potted plants in from the porch, and she’ll refuse each time, regardless of how polite you are. As if she doesn’t understand SHE works for YOU!
Alexa can tell you the Bolivian city Oruro’s population. She can tell you who serves at its mayor, or what kind of climate it experiences. She can probably tell you its exact coordinates in terms of latitude and longitude. But she has no fucking clue where you put your damn sweaters after you moved this past summer.
With certain home systems, it’s likely possible that Alexa could adjust your house’s internal temperature and turn on certain lights at your request. But she is powerless to slow the gusts of wind that keep knocking off the dead branches from the trees in your backyard, or halt the encroaching darkness that aims to devour large swaths of your day.
And herein lies the crux of why you should buy this now: while Alexa might not be of much assistance in the fall, you’ll want some time to get used to her. Because winter is coming, and as the world begins its annual descent into cold darkness, you’ll find yourself spending more and more time inside. You’ll need someone to ask for soup recipes, or to help you find upbeat music to play, or to read you temperatures in Australia where summer is just beginning.
But most of all, you’ll need a friendly voice, someone you know you can rely on as you begin the lonely months of quasi-hibernation. So don’t worry that she won’t lend a hand with your yard work. She’ll be there when you need her.
