They are intriguing, to say the least, and one wonders if indeed, as Will Oremus asks in the below article presented on Slate, these new gadgets from Amazon are indeed part of a plot…

Amazon’s Ingenious Plot to Take Over Your Living Room

I like what I see regarding these gadgets even as I can’t help but point to what I posted just yesterday regarding cheap Smartwatches that just happen to be sending wearers’ information out to China (you can read the article by clicking here).

In that post, I wrote about how much of our personal information winds up in other’s hands and how they, including Amazon, may use these bits and pieces of information to develop and target you for other products.

If you buy any of these (admittedly cool looking) new Amazon gadgets, how much do you want to bet your personal information, whether you buy certain things through these gadgets or listen to certain music on them, winds up transmitted to Amazon?

And how much do you want to bet Amazon then sharpens their view on you as a consumer and, when you do head to their webpage, they offer you an astonishing amount of things you just may want to buy based on your usage of one of these gadgets?

It’s hard to remember but Amazon started as an internet seller of used books.

How the mighty have grown!