According to The Wall Street Journal, the Lab126, which created the Kindle Fire and Amazon Phone Echo, is to lay off dozens of engineers. However, the company will be working on three new projects in secret.
The first is a kitchen computer, with the code name ‘Kabinet’ which, according to the newspaper, is designed to serve as a “hub” for a home connected to the Internet and capable of receiving voice commands, for example, order products.
The second product is a tablet with an auto stereoscopic 3D display, a bit similar to that used in the Nintendo 3DS system. The images will “leap off the screen without the user is using special glasses,” unlike the “alleged 3D effect used by the Fire Phone Amazon,” writes The Wall Street Journal.
Finally, the company is working on an e-reader Kindle to two years of battery. The newspaper said the engineers of Lab126 “said they hope to produce a battery to the Kindle that will take two years to run out of power, that on a single charge.”
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