But the exodus from the Chicago harbors was triggered more by
the calendar than the weather, said Joseph O`Malley, assistant director of marine services for the Chicago Park District.
Costing $ 35, the Genie is a little bigger
than Amazon's Echo Dot, which retails at $ 50, but claims to offer stronger bass and double the volume of Amazon's equivalent device thanks to a 2W speaker.The Genie's list of features pretty much tallies with Echo Dot's abilities, so it can play music, control other smart home devices, order products, answer questions, set
calendars, report the
weather and news, and more.According to Anker, it's also possible to use the Amazon Alexa app with the Genie to access over 10,000 skills and services, such as Pandora, Domino's Pizza, Uber, ESPN, NPR News, and more.
I would regularly check messages, archive Gmail, check my step count, look at the
weather or my upcoming appointments on the
calendar — but I didn't regularly perform lots of voice searches or do anything that kept the screen on more
than 20 seconds or so at a time.