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I've looked at this pretty hard and concluded that, inexplicably, it is not an April Fools joke.

What's wild to me is that last year, it was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4l6TwhVAHo

Wow I did not come across this joke last year and now it has been implemented (partly) by their competitors. What a time to be alive.

I can easily see this selling like hotcakes. I can see a lot of fashion conscious young people loving a history of what they wore every day.

Yeah, it already exists in fact: http://lookbook.nu/

I wouldn't buy this, but thinking of how many friends seem to have a near-constant Snapchat stream of "what do you think about this hat?" photos makes me think this is going to sell big.

ah kill me already

Fashion conscious and (irrevocably vain or hopelessly insecure).

It's not more vain than going after the last JS framework or busting your ass in the latest SF startup that's totally going to be a unicorn. You're not the target, and that's ok, but there's no need to be condescending to the one that might be interested

You might be on to something. But the video on the website is really notable to me for using real people (not abnormally attractive women). The clothes also look fairly normal. They seem to be going for some kind of genuineness here.

There is zero chance of this becoming popular. Zero.

What makes you so sure?

I think there are some pretty compelling arguments for this device selling like hotcakes in this thread, and my experience with people very into clothes (e.g. not myself) would lead me to believe there are a ton of people that'd love any reason to make their morning/evening routines longer, and even more people that couldn't care less about a camera/internet-enabled device set up in the bedroom.

I imagine it will take off a reasonable amount at $200, and then really start selling when it comes down to $100, a la the standard Echo path.

I had the same thought when they announced those push buttons for products.

Unfortunately, the truth is that pretty soon you will be able to send nudes just using your voice.

Alexa I said send him the good news!

I laughed for a solid minute on that one.

Having the button to refresh my cat food/litter every month was absolutely awesome. I already bought the same kind every month on Amazon (they didn't have a subscription offer) so it was always awkward to remember to get back to a computer later to get on Amazon to buy more cat food when I noticed I was low -- being able to push a button to order more right then is surprisingly convenient.

My first and only use for the button is cat food. :3 Toothpaste is probably next on the list.

Serious: what's wrong with the buttons?

It just sounded like a late April joke. It was also released around this time.

Nude Taynes even.

Same here. On the flip side, there is a bra-fitting app called "ThirdLove"[1] are doing this kind of computer vision/machine learning AI to help women for years. So Amazon Echo Look is not completely out of the line here.

[1]: https://www.thirlove.com

I couldn't help but think of this, from Viz (a puerile but hilarious adult comic book from the UK).

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bm5j-56CYAAZ5GT.jpg

Also, perhaps appropriately, you missed a 'd' from your link.

Oops, yep, I missed a 'd' by accident :)

As soon as I read a brief description I was checking and double-checking the calendar.

Same here. In disbelief after reading the product specs, I asked Alexa via my echo dot what the date is, and I can confirm it's not April 1st.

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