Amazon Echo Frames
You might be familiar with the Bose Frames, which are sunglasses equipped with mini speakers that play music and let you converse with your smart assistant (like Alexa). We like Bose Frames. Echo Frames, which are very similar in name and borrow Bose technology, are essentially Bose Frames for prescription lenses.
Garmin Speak Plus Dash Cam
Garmin’s navigational system is the main attraction here, plus having a camera that records the drive, should anything bad happen and you need video evidence later. God forbid. But with Alexa hitching a ride in the car too, you also have the ability to chatter away to yourself, making lists and reading off errands and switching playlists as you commute.
Amazon Echo Link
There are a handful of smart Bluetooth speakers that come with Alexa support built in—including those from Sonos, a speaker heavyweight that makes the fantastic Move and Beam units. But if you already own a speaker that you love that isn’t equipped, you can retrofit it with Echo capabilities by connecting it to this Echo Link (via Bluetooth or analog jacks).
Amazon Echo Buds (2nd Gen)
Amazon Echo Wall Clock
Arguably, the one talent Alexa best excels at is setting timers. Timers on timers on timers. For the visual learners among us, Amazon made a wall clock that displays the minutes left on your timers by syncing with the timers you set up on your Echo. Obviously, it shows time itself, too.
Amazon Echo Glow
Are kids entertained by an orb that glows different colors? Beats us. At least it’ll get them accustomed to ordering machines around, which is a useful life skill.
EchoGear Wall Mount for Echo Dot (4th Generation)
Otterbox Baby Yoda Echo Dot Stand
There he is. Baby Yoda—sorry, “The Child”—himself. Now that’s what you call elevated home decor.
Amazon Echo Show 5 Adjustable Stand
There’ll be less craning of the neck when you have a stand that tilts to better angles for your Echo Show 5.
Blink Home Security Blink Mini Indoor Smart Security Camera
Post up one (or three) of these compact security cams inside your home to make sure your fortress hasn’t been invaded by bad guys. Or, more accurately, to make sure your dog isn’t being a complete psycho while you’re at work.
Amazon Echo Auto
This device is quite simply an Echo for your car. Attached to your vehicle’s vents, it’s most useful for tackling your to-do list while you’re commuting and streaming music options beyond FM radio. If you want navigational help though, don’t rely on Alexa. It’ll connect to Google Maps, Waze, or another map app, but not in an intuitive way, and its own navigational skills are very limited.
Philips Hue White 4-Pack A19 LED Smart Bulbs
Philips has enough Hue gadgets and accessories to warrant its own list, but this is the fundamental one: a starter pack of four smart bulbs so you can start lighting, dimming, and turning off bulbs around your home with Echo’s voice or app commands. Hue also makes colored bulbs for more intentional mood lighting.
Lutron Caseta Smart Home Dimmer Switch
Another lighting accessory, this one takes your boring-as-hell unsmart light bulbs and makes them smart-ish by inserting a smart dimmer switch between them and you. That dimmer handles preset modes, commands from afar, and voice control. And if you’re old-school, you can just use the buttons on it when you walk into a room.
First Alert Onelink Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Detector
Not the most exciting accessory on this list but certainly the most practical, First Alert’s smart detector monitors your home and lets you monitor it in turn by receiving status updates through your Alexa-enabled device. If you want more than one detector, you can string them together into a smart network with Alexa as well.
Ring Video Doorbell
This is a chunky addition to the front door, but one that lends you an extra level of security. If you have an Echo device with a video screen, you can stream what’s happening on your front step to it, and speak to whoever’s standing there. You can check it remotely. You can get alerts from its motion sensor. And bonus, it’s got an old-fashioned peephole. Because it’s a scary world out there.
Google Nest Learning Thermostat, 3rd Gen
Wield precision control over the temperature in your home with Google’s Nest thermostat. It’ll likely save you on energy costs in the long run by learning when you do and don’t need heat or AC pumping through every room. And in a rare instance of big-tech collaboration, it pairs with Amazon’s Echo.
Amazon Smart Plug
Here’s how you hack anything in your home that needs electricity into being an Alexa-controlled smart device: Put a smart plug between it and the wall. From there, you can command household items to do your bidding (i.e. switch them off or on by cutting then restoring their power connection) from near or afar—the coffee maker, a standing lamp, your window AC.
TP-Link Kasa Smart WiFi Power Strip
Do you own six devices that you’d like to upgrade to smart status? How very intelligent of you. You can turn them all on and off via an Echo device when they’re plugged into this strip. Independently of each other, too. Rest assured, it has surge protection.
Sonos Move Smart Bluetooth Speaker
Neato Robotics D6 Connected Laser-Guided Robot Vacuum
Lastly, the ultimate splurge: a robot vacuum to tackle the floor cleaning that you yourself are loathe to do. Neato’s Alexa-controlled model maps out the floor with lasers and rarely bumps into furniture or gets caught in corners. And because it listens to Alexa, you can set it to cleaning while you’re out of the house.
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