Amazon’s Next Gadget From Lab126?

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I love tracking Amazon’s FCC filing patterns almost as much as I love their technology. Whereas most companies file under their own corporate entity, with the requisite confidentiality requests, or time filings with press or consumer announcements to prevent inadvertent discoveries, Amazon tends to create interestingly named and staffed LLCs around the country with VOIP numbers (that are never answered). So while I can’t say for certain this is the next gizmo out of Amazon’s Lab126, I can tell you it fits their pattern. With that in mind, let me introduce you to Scituate LLC, housed at a Regus office rental facility in Arizona, staffed by a Raven Brady, with a Google Voice number. And what they’ve filed is the mysterious single band JK76PL 802.11 b/g/n “Wireless Device” — let your imagination go crazy. Could this be Amazon’s next Echo or Fire TV product? A home automation hub or Fire tablet dock? Something for their warehouses? Or someone else’s product all together?

20 thoughts on “Amazon’s Next Gadget From Lab126?”

  1. This ain’t brain surgery.

    Look closely at the diagram and codes. All the clues are there. Obviously a DVR.

  2. After the Amazon Dash and Echo, I don’t even feel comfortable taking a guess based on that sole oval image… those were so far out of left field. But how about an Amazon NAS to sync with our now unlimited cloud storage? ;) Regarding including frequencies and technologies, this thing could be filed multiple times. Tho it usually happens in close proximity, so the odds are lower today of seeing Zigbee, Z-Wave, Bluetooth.

  3. Dash wasn’t that far out of left field; Amazon had been buying voice startups since 2011, and I always thought that tech would eventually turn up in a shopping product.

    Echo was a little odd, yes.

  4. “Mystery solved?”

    Am I missing something, or isn’t that a pretty weird product? I mean, that’s something folks will actually want? Even for free?

  5. It appears to be the next step in “auto fulfillment” instead of timed auto shipments you push this button for shipments. Not sure I would want/use it but I am guessing there are plenty of people who would look at this a way to make life simpler/easier.

  6. ??? WTF?!?! This sounds like an April Fools joke. Is this for real. It sounds kind of crazy to me.

    This is an April Fools joke, right?

  7. I want it.

    Well, not really. I want one just to play with it, but doubt I’d ever use it. But hey, who knows. Maybe this is the future… Or not. Probably not.

  8. “Well, not really. I want one just to play with it, but doubt I’d ever use it.”

    The Learjet dash is the one that really gets me. Sounds cool, but one accidental slip of the finger, and you’re in debt the rest of your life.

  9. “How long before someone hacks the Dash button? It’s free after all…”

    Already done. In a daring move, folks have hacked the Cottonelle Dash to make it order Charmin from Amazon instead.

    Unfortunately, under the corporate hacking Executive Order signed by the President today, doing so will result in your being sent directly to Guantanamo. In fact, even your mere suggestion can be construed as providing “technical or material support” for such hacking, and thus you should get your affairs in order as quickly as possible. I’d wish you good luck, but I think doing so would put me in the same boat.

  10. Upon third thought, these have got to be promoted brands. no? I mean, the whole thing works by Tide giving Amazon some money, right?

  11. Rarely agree with anything Gruber sez, but regarding the AdWare Dash, “Feels like Amazon meets Philip K. Dick” was actually on my mind as well.

    Just wait until their fleet of drones starts sneaking into your home while you’re out to implant the things everywhere, as is already permitted on page 437 of the Prime EULA.

    —–

    Also via Gruber, and far more interesting than the single-purpose AdWare dingus itself, is the Dash Replenishment Service.

    It lets any IoT device easily set itself up to order refills via Amazon fulfillment, either through an implanted button, or just automatically by monitoring levels of consumables.

    With that taken into account, the whole Dash initiative begins to make much more sense to me…

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