Travel News - Gadget Related - January

Travel News - Gadget Related - January

5 ways tech will make flying better in 2017
businessinsider.com/how-tech-will-improve-air-travel-2017-1

A Luggage Tracker Mobile App

Amazon Tap with Alexa and How It Is Useful For Travel

Amazon Tap with Alexa and Travel

Amazon Echo, with Alex artificial intelligence assistant, is a home based hub that responses to a verbal request with responses on a multitude of topics. It can play music, tell you the weather, latest sports scores, and news headlines. Through skills that are available on Amazon's Alexa Skills page, Echo can increase a number of topics that it is able to answer. Amazon Tap is similar to Echo, except it is designed to be portable, making it great for travel, and needs to be tapped to activate.
Through learning these skills and quite a few companies developing new ones, Alexa is broadening out into the travel world.

Amazon Tap - Alexa-Enabled Portable Bluetooth Speaker

Heading Out
Find out from Alexa what the weather is like outside and get a forecast.
Order Uber for your trip using Alexa.

City Guides
Alexa can also "learn" city guides. You can find out information within major cities, as currently available, before heading out to sight see.