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Amazon just released the Echo Spot alarm clock, and it’s on sale ahead of Prime Day
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Amazon’s already expansive lineup of Alexa-enabled devices keeps growing. The latest addition: A smart alarm clock that might actually make mornings tolerable.
If you’re the type of person who needs a bit more nudging to wake up each day, you’re not alone. But the Amazon Echo Spot smart alarm clock can do its part to make rising and shining each day a bit simpler. This customizable clock offers rich, vibrant sound and a slew of other Alexa-centric features to make easing into the day not only tolerable, but fun.
The Echo Spot only just debuted, and it’s already on sale at Amazon ahead of Prime Day 2024. You can snag one in multiple colors for a 44% discount, making it just $45 versus its retail price of $80. Alternatively, you can get the Echo Spot with its charging stand bundled together for just $75, marked down from its normal price of $110.
If you want to see what all the fuss is about, you’ll want to add this smart alarm clock to your cart and bring it home before this sale comes to an end after Prime Day.
Amazon Echo Spot smart alarm clock: $45 ($35 off)
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Add the new Echo Spot to your smart home ecosystem and bring Alexa to your nightstand. Customize this smart gadget with your favorite clock face, colors, alarm sounds and more. It has a smart display that shows the time, weather, song titles and other information at a glance so you have everything you need right in front of you in the morning.
A smart speaker at heart, it’s loud and effective as an alarm clock, but you can use it to enjoy music and podcasts with crisp clarity and surprisingly loud volume. Control it with touch or via Alexa, which can also be set up to follow routines that wake you up with music and soft light in a more gentle way than traditional alarms.
You can use the Echo Spot as a smart home hub by way of Alexa as well, with voice controls that mean you don’t have to stumble out of bed in the morning to find a switch or touch a panel somewhere else to turn on the lights or get your day going.
Right now, you can save $35 on the Echo Spot, making it just $45 for Prime Day. Grab yours quickly before it goes up to $80 once more. You can also the Echo Spot with its charging stand bundled together for just $75, marked down from its normal price of $110.
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Teacher, student killed in Wisconsin school shooting identified
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A teacher and student killed in a shooting earlier this week at a school in Madison, Wisconsin, were identified Wednesday by authorities.
The Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office said in a news release provided to CBS News that 42-year-old Erin West and 14-year-old Rubi Vergara were fatally shot Monday morning at Abundant Life Christian School.
Preliminary examinations determined the two died of “homicidal firearm related trauma.” Both were pronounced dead at the scene, the medical examiner said.
An online obituary on a local funeral site stated Vergara was a freshman who leaves behind her parents, one brother, and a large extended family. It described her as “an avid reader” who “loved art, singing and playing keyboard in the family worship band.”
West’s exact position with the school was unclear.
The medical examiner also confirmed that a preliminary autopsy found that the suspected shooter, 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow — a student at the same school — was pronounced dead at a local hospital Monday of “firearm related trauma.” Madison Chief of Police Shon F. Barnes had previously told reporters that Rupnow was pronounced dead while being transported to a hospital.
Police had also previously stated that she was believed to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The shooting at the private Christian K-12 school was reported just before 11 a.m. Monday. In addition to the two people killed and the shooter, six others were wounded.
Police said the shooting occurred in a classroom where a study hall was taking place involving students from several grades.
A handgun was recovered after the shooting, Barnes said, but it was unclear where the gun came from or how many shots were fired. A law enforcement source said the weapon used in the shooting appears to have been a 9 mm pistol.
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