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Amazon added voice commands to its Music and Shopping apps a while back, but if you wanted to use your phone as an Echo-style speaker, you were out of luck. Now, though, an Alexa app update adds support for Alexa voice interaction on your Android phone. Just like using an Echo or Echo Dot , you can use ask your phone's Alexa to find nearby restaurants, order gadgets from Best Buy or find out what movies are playing in your town. Better yet, the updated Alexa app can show responses on-screen, too, giving you visual details about the upcoming weather, sports updates, calendar appointments and more. The update should roll out to Android customers in the coming days; the company promises an iOS update "soon." via Engadget RSS Feed "http://ift.tt/2rmfchM"

Korg has been producing a ton of little synths in its Volca series over the last several years. Announced back in 2013 , the initial Volca Beat, Bass and Keys started a run that eventually included an OK Go sample box, an '80s-style FM synth and an oscillator-driven drum sequencer, the Volca Kick . Now the company wants you to be able to chain a few of these tiny devices together for live performance with a new four channel mixer, the Volca Mix , announced at NAMM this year. According to FactMag , the Mix will run $170 and will release later this month. The Volca Mix has two mono inputs and one stereo input, each a handy 1/8-inch size so you'll need fewer adaptors. That gives you three spots to connect Volca units via their individual headphone jacks. Each channel gets its own vertical fader, lo/hi cut filter and mute button to help you create the perfect analog mix on the fly. The Mix has RCA stereo outputs to connect to your sound system as well as a master LED meter to...