Design, Science and Technology

Those weird “loved ones come back from the dead to visit you” stunts pulled by celebrities like Kanye West may soon become a reality through your digital assistant.

At Amazon’s re:MARS conference, the company announced it’s working on a feature that can synthesize short audio clips of a person’s voice and then reprogram it as longer speech. Amazon’s Senior Vice President and Head Scientist for Alexa, Rohit Prasad, showed off a demonstration where, as TechCrunch described, “the voice of a deceased loved one (a grandmother, in this case), is used to read a grandson a bedtime story.”

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The Amazon Wish List system allows you to create collections of any kind of products which can be collected from any online shop and to have them  published on Amazon.

Using the Amazon Wish List system you can create easily lists of any kind of products that can be easily consulted, sorted, and shared with others.

The Amazon Wish List offers a dedicated extension for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer and for your IPad. Alternatively a standard bookmarklet is also available.

My comment: An excellent alternative and complement to Amazon Collections which allows not just to organize and publish lists of Amazon products, but it extends this ability to any online shop. Wherever you are you can clip and collect any product into an Amazon Wish List. Ideally Amazon Collections and Wish Lists should be one thing and the best features of each merged into one facility.

Wish Lists are less appealing visually but offer the opportunity to be viewed as compact lists (handy for large ones), to be sorted and filtered in a numbered of ways and to be printed. Something you cannot do with Amazon Collections.

Free to use.

Find out more: http://www.amazon.com/wishlist/universal/ref=cm_wl_xt_top_lm_ff_huc

Here is a sample wish list of Portable Wireless Microphones I have recently created: http://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/1H58ZIB8Y5N1W/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_ws_MPTasb0JBVQBB

Amazon-Wunschliste mit portablem Audio-Equipment für Video-Interviews.