https://consumerist.com/2017/08/29/amazon-really-wants-echo-devices-in-the-hands-and-dorm-rooms-of-college-students/ >If you want future developers of technology to create new things for your product, try giving it to engineering students for free. Amazon is experimenting with that at one college, giving away an Echo Dot (list price $49.99) to every student in a new dorm at Arizona State University. >The university partnered with Amazon to put 1,600 of the smart speaker devices in the dorm rooms of engineering students. We can only imagine what the speakers might overhear in that environment, but it’s also exciting to think about what kinds of new skills they might develop for the Alexa voice assistant or uses the speakers could be put to in that environment. Some of the new skills might even not involve burrito delivery.