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Amazon unveiled its vision for smart homes powered by the Alexa voice assistant, with a dizzying array of new gadgets and features for almost every room in the housefrom a microwave oven to a security camera and wall clock.

The Seattle internet giant is pushing Alexa more deeply into customers’ lives, hoping to popularize technology that has yet to go mainstream and connecting people more to Amazon’s universe of things to buy. CEO Jeff Bezos sees voice as the next interface linking people and machines, like a mouse on personal computers and touchscreens on smartphones.

The $50 hockey puck-shaped Dot is one of Amazon’s best-selling devices, and with sound that Amazon describes as 70 percent better, it’s going after audiophiles on Sonos turf. Amazon also introduced a subwoofer to go along with existing Echo products as well as a pair of amplifiers that work like audio control centers for the home.

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