
This time last week, I was surfing along the plush carpet in Amazon's giant booth at The Venetian in Las Vegas – as part of the world's largest consumer technology show, CES 2026 – and finally encountered a demo I'd been waiting for months to hear.
Each September, Amazon delivers its annual tech product reveal – the Amazon Fall Hardware event, as it's widely known – which last time around included the introduction of Alexa Home Theatre (or Alexa Home Cinema as it's called in the UK).