Amazon Echo Dot Smart Speaker

Amazon's compact Alexa speaker, in its best-sounding Echo Dot version yet.

• Plays music, podcasts and audiobooks from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify and others, or over Bluetooth.
• Hands-free timers, weather, alarms and questions; tap the top to snooze.
• Built-in motion and temperature sensors can trigger smart home routines, and a button turns the microphones off. This listing is Charcoal.

A small, useful gift for a kitchen, a bedroom or a first apartment, and one of the easier pieces of tech to hand an older relative.