Amazon has launched an AI-powered “hands-free camera and style assistant” named Echo Look. The device can take pictures and short videos and also employs machine learning to algorithms to suggest outfits, which Amazon claims is built using "advice from fashion specialists”. The camera device is integrated with Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant, and it pretty much does all operations performed by the Amazon Echo, except that Echo Look will have video input apart from voice input. Echo Look will only be available on an invitations basis, with a price tag of $199.99. The device is the latest addition to Amazon’s already growing number of devices like the Amazon Fire TV Stick which was recently launched in India. Amazon has a series of smart home devices under its Echo brand, a number of media streaming devices under its Fire TV brand, tablets under the 'Fire' brand and the e-book reader Kindle. It head earlier discontinued the Fire smartphone back in September 2015 after it failed to impress consumers. However, what sets apart the Echo and Fire TV is its inbuilt support for Alexa, an AI assistant which Amazon claims has 12,000 skills. These skills allow Echo and Fire TV customers to order food online, browse and discover content, get answers for questions from sponsored by portal like WebMD, and “more than 300 smart home skills to turn lights on or off, change light color, or even lock a door.” Amazon says it stores Echo data, but says will not share with third parties So basically Amazon…
