Digital assistants made it into speakers, headphones, phones, lamps, and more at IFA
The IFA technology conference in Berlin this past week blessed us with gadgets. We witnessed the introduction of questionably large speakers, new phones, mixed reality headsets, and even new gaming mice. Much like we saw at CES, virtual assistants also continued to creep into every product.
As of this summer, Google Assistant, Alexa, and Cortana can all be built into third-party manufacturers’ devices, and these new IFA products demonstrate an interest in including them. Most companies either bundle support for all the assistants into one device, or release a specifically designed gadget for each assistant.
Given that Amazon was the first to publicly release its assistant’s API, it saw early success at CES. Now, however, device…
