Google just announced Google Home, a smart home appliance that consumers can speak to and do things with, like order food, play music, and get weather and traffic updates.
The sleek, speaker-shaped device is Google's highly anticipated answer to Amazon's increasingly popular Echo product.
Google didn't announce a price for the device, which is set to launch later this year. The Amazon Echo costs $179.99.
Onstage at the Google I/O conference, Google CEO Sundar Pichai credited Amazon with building excitement for the idea of a home gadget that can answer your questions.
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