Amazon is reported by the FT to be working on a version of its Echo devices that would be like a pair of smart glasses and would support the Alexa voice assistant. Amazon wouldn’t comment, but the idea is to use bone-conduction audio to allow the headset to deliver audio without the need for earphones. The headset would connect to a smartphone using Bluetooth. The FT noted that a number of people previously working at Google on the Glass project, including Babak Parviz, founder of Google Glass, have moved to Amazon over the last three years.
Aftershokz made this kind of bone conduction headphones. Image:Wikipedia Commons
