It’s a bit like discovering headphones all over again. The Echo Frames have sold me on the concept of having discreet, personal audio available at all times. Bose is also on its second iteration of sunglasses (or eyeglasses) with little speakers in the temples - and it offers multiple styles, to boot. That’s doubly true for these Echo Frames, which are now widely available for anybody to buy in a version two of the product that makes some tweaks to the internal hardware and battery life.Īmazon isn’t alone in this category, though. Maybe that’s in the works, but as with many of its products, Amazon starts with a minimum viable product and iterates. It’s a much smarter strategy than the failed smart glasses that tried to add a display into the mix.
They run $249 and come with basic plastic lenses, but you can take them to an optometrist and get prescription lenses.
The concept is relatively simple: they’re a pair of eyeglasses with tiny little speakers and microphones embedded in the temples so you can listen to music and command Alexa. I did not expect to like the Amazon Echo Frames as much as I do.
