Amazon just teased 3 new products. They may never hit the market
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Amazon announced three new Alexa-enabled products on Wednesday: a smart sticky note printer, nutrition scale and cuckoo clock. But there's a catch -- the tech giant will only ship these items if enough people pre-order them.
It's like Kickstarter for Alexa. Artists, startups and organizations typically turn to Kickstarter to pitch new products and hit a certain funding goal to help the project get off the ground. Now Amazon is doing something similar, except the trillion-dollar company certainly doesn't need help raising money for its production process. Instead, Amazon's new program, called Build It, aims to give customers a say in what it creates next. The tech giant has been stuffing its voice-control software into nearly everything in the past few years, including its speakers, microwaves, glasses and earbuds. Do we really need an Alexa-enabled cuckoo clock that lets you set timers? Maybe. Amazon (AMZN) will know in 30 days if it's something customers actually want.
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