https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/20/amazon-launches-an-alexa-microwave-with-built-in-popcorn-dash-button/ > One of the weirder rumors ahead of today’s Amazon event has come to fruition. The company’s attempting to make a big push into home appliances, so it’s leading the way with its very microwave. The Amazon Basics Microwave apparently began life as an in-house reference product, as the company was developing an API for third-parties to develop their own Alexa-powered devices. > The microwave is “still stuck in the late 70s,” the company said at the event. So it built a new one.