Attention, Pokémon trainers: An Amazon Echo can also work as a Pokédex

 By 
Chelsea Stark
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The Pokédex is any Pokémon trainer's best tool, a vital device that lets a player know exactly what they're up against in a tense battle. But if you don't have time to type, why not just turn the voice command-powered Amazon Echo into your own Pokémon encyclopedia?

That's exactly what YouTube user Vince Hale Jr. did, turning his Amazon Echo speaker into a font of Poké-knowledge. By asking Alexa to "ask Dexter" about a specific Pokémon -- from Mudkip to Totodile -- she'll spit the information back at him.

According to Hale's video description, he created the tool using Amazon Lambda, a part of Amazon Web Services that can execute code from the cloud. The "Dexter" he's referring to is an Android-based Pokédex app, so he's presumably pinging that for requests.

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