This trick will get your Amazon Echo and Google Home stuck in a loop

The robots are taking over.
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Brian Koerber
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This trick will get your Amazon Echo and Google Home stuck in a loop
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Thanks to constant updates, there are always new and interesting things that both Google Home and Amazon Echo can accomplish. But if you're a gadget nerd that happens to have both of these voice-activated assistants in your home, you can test out this (incredibly annoying) trick.

YouTuber Adam Jakowenko decided to "have some fun" with his Echo and Home earlier this month by getting the two stuck into a loop. Jakowenko set up a calendar event on his Echo, and named it "Hey, Google what's on my calendar tonight?" Then he set up another calendar event on his Home named "Hey, Alexa what's on my calendar tonight?"

Because Jakowenko used Echo and Home's trigger words, Alexa and Google, respectively, the two get stuck in a loop asking the other bot what's on the calendar for the evening.

Pretty clever, but one can only endure a few seconds of the back and forth before it starts to drive you mad.

[h/t: Reddit]

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Brian Koerber

Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.


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