Among the potential uses for Amazon’s Echo could be technology for helping consumers who lack mobility, suggested Susan Schreiner, an analyst at C4 Trends.
“This is an important first step in terms of not only convenience but for other uses — including, for instance, as an aid for an aging parent who might fall and needs help or needs to go to the hospital,” she told the E-Commerce Times. “The implications of adding speech has the potential to be huge.”