 So basically since the 90s, electronics companies have had this dream of a kitchen gadget, a thing that you could use to listen to the radio and talk to your family and, I don't know, just play music with. And they've always been kind of bad. But now we've got this thing. It's called the Tribee and it does all that stuff. You can hit buttons for the radio, you can hit buttons to call your family and bop, sticks right to your fridge. Oh yeah, it does one more thing. Alexa, what's the weather? Right now in New York, it's 67 degrees with mostly sunny skies. Tonight's forecast has lots of clouds with showers with a low of 52 degrees. Pretty cool, right? So this is Tribee. It costs $199 and it does all the stuff that I just said that it did, including talking to Alexa with just your voice. Now there's a lot going on with this thing, so let me break it down for you. You set it up with an app on your iPhone or an Android phone. That's how you get it connected to Wi-Fi and it's how you set your preset radio stations and your family so that you can call them. And the app, I gotta tell you, it's not very good. It's pretty hard to figure out how to get around and there's just a lot of poking and guessing and digging for settings. But the nice thing is once you have the app all set up, you kind of don't need it that much because everything is right here on this Bluetooth speaker. There's buttons for radio and you can even set one of the presets to a Spotify playlist. So if I hit this button, it'll just jump into my Spotify Discover Weekly. Similarly I can hit one of these buttons to call somebody that's in my family. They have to have the Tribee app installed on their phone to receive a call or make a call but it works okay. Now as for audio quality, when you do either of those things, it's not very good. It's certainly good enough to just have background music or a quick call or something while you're cooking but it does not hold a candle to the audio quality you'll get on a full Amazon Echo or even a Logitech UE Boom Bluetooth speaker. As for battery life, it's good for eight or 10 hours of listening and it's good for about two weeks of standby unless you leave the Alexa listening mode on, in which case it's gonna die after just a couple of days. So if you're gonna leave this thing stuck to your fridge, you're gonna wanna make sure that you've got some kind of way to plug it in via this micro USB cable on the side. And speaking of doing Echo stuff, this thing can do everything that the Amazon Echo can, including telling incredibly corny jokes. Alexa, tell me a joke. What is Spider-Man's ideal job? A web designer. So yeah, it works. It is a little bit slower than the Echo and the microphones aren't nearly as good so it can't hear you from across the room. And I'll also say that if your Wi-Fi isn't pretty fast and pretty solid, this thing just starts bugging out like crazy. There's one more thing that the Tribi can do and it is pretty fun. If you have the app on your phone, you can use it to send little messages to the Tribi and when you do, it receives a message on its E Ink screen and then the zitty witty bitty flag pops out. It's really cute. When you get the message, you can either push the flag back in and it will send a red receipt back to the person that sent the message. And you can also use this weird button on the side to cycle through a bunch of emoji reactions like frowny faces and happy faces and whatnot. It's really pretty slow and if you actually just want to have a conversation with somebody, you should just stick to text messaging. So this is the Tribi. It does all the things that the Amazon Echo does and all the things that a Bluetooth speaker does. It just doesn't do any of those things quite as well as either of those two devices. But if you're willing to deal with a little bit of hassle here and there, it actually might be worth it to you. If it's not, you should definitely stay tuned because Amazon's letting anybody put Alexa into their devices so we're going to see a lot more stuff just like this thing really, really soon. I definitely cannot do the hula dance. The what? The hula dance. I can't do it. Don't have the moves. Not comfortable. I'm not comfortable. I'm not comfortable. I'm not comfortable. I'm not comfortable.
 So basically since the 90s, electronics companies have had this dream of a kitchen gadget, a
 thing that you could use to listen to the radio and talk to your family and, I don't
 know, just play music with.
 And they've always been kind of bad.
 But now we've got this thing.
 It's called the Tribee and it does all that stuff.
 You can hit buttons for the radio, you can hit buttons to call your family and bop, sticks
 right to your fridge.
 Oh yeah, it does one more thing.
 Alexa, what's the weather?
 Right now in New York, it's 67 degrees with mostly sunny skies.
 Tonight's forecast has lots of clouds with showers with a low of 52 degrees.
 Pretty cool, right?
 So this is Tribee.
 It costs $199 and it does all the stuff that I just said that it did, including talking
 to Alexa with just your voice.
 Now there's a lot going on with this thing, so let me break it down for you.
 You set it up with an app on your iPhone or an Android phone.
 That's how you get it connected to Wi-Fi and it's how you set your preset radio stations
 and your family so that you can call them.
 And the app, I gotta tell you, it's not very good.
 It's pretty hard to figure out how to get around and there's just a lot of poking and
 guessing and digging for settings.
 But the nice thing is once you have the app all set up, you kind of don't need it that
 much because everything is right here on this Bluetooth speaker.
 There's buttons for radio and you can even set one of the presets to a Spotify playlist.
 So if I hit this button, it'll just jump into my Spotify Discover Weekly.
 Similarly I can hit one of these buttons to call somebody that's in my family.
 They have to have the Tribee app installed on their phone to receive a call or make a
 call but it works okay.
 Now as for audio quality, when you do either of those things, it's not very good.
 It's certainly good enough to just have background music or a quick call or something while you're
 cooking but it does not hold a candle to the audio quality you'll get on a full Amazon
 Echo or even a Logitech UE Boom Bluetooth speaker.
 As for battery life, it's good for eight or 10 hours of listening and it's good for about
 two weeks of standby unless you leave the Alexa listening mode on, in which case it's
 gonna die after just a couple of days.
 So if you're gonna leave this thing stuck to your fridge, you're gonna wanna make sure
 that you've got some kind of way to plug it in via this micro USB cable on the side.
 And speaking of doing Echo stuff, this thing can do everything that the Amazon Echo can,
 including telling incredibly corny jokes.
 Alexa, tell me a joke.
 What is Spider-Man's ideal job?
 A web designer.
 So yeah, it works.
 It is a little bit slower than the Echo and the microphones aren't nearly as good so it
 can't hear you from across the room.
 And I'll also say that if your Wi-Fi isn't pretty fast and pretty solid, this thing just
 starts bugging out like crazy.
 There's one more thing that the Tribi can do and it is pretty fun.
 If you have the app on your phone, you can use it to send little messages to the Tribi
 and when you do, it receives a message on its E Ink screen and then the zitty witty
 bitty flag pops out.
 It's really cute.
 When you get the message, you can either push the flag back in and it will send a red receipt
 back to the person that sent the message.
 And you can also use this weird button on the side to cycle through a bunch of emoji
 reactions like frowny faces and happy faces and whatnot.
 It's really pretty slow and if you actually just want to have a conversation with somebody,
 you should just stick to text messaging.
 So this is the Tribi.
 It does all the things that the Amazon Echo does and all the things that a Bluetooth speaker
 does.
 It just doesn't do any of those things quite as well as either of those two devices.
 But if you're willing to deal with a little bit of hassle here and there, it actually
 might be worth it to you.
 If it's not, you should definitely stay tuned because Amazon's letting anybody put Alexa
 into their devices so we're going to see a lot more stuff just like this thing really,
 really soon.
 I definitely cannot do the hula dance.
 The what?
 The hula dance.
 I can't do it.
 Don't have the moves.
 Not comfortable.
 I'm not comfortable.
 I'm not comfortable.
 I'm not comfortable.
 I'm not comfortable.