Need a brand new Hyundai? Just ask Alexa.

This week, the Korean automaker introduced it would begin working with Amazon to sell some of its vehicles on the gargantuan ecommerce website. The Hyundais bought on Amazon won’t, actually, are available a really massive field, however consumers can have the selection of getting their new automobile delivered or choosing it up at an area dealership. Sales will start in 2024, and different manufacturers will doubtless hop onto Amazon after Hyundai’s first steps.

It’s the most recent transfer within the growing Amazonification of automobile shopping for. Online automobile gross sales are an enormous, although maybe pure, development of the always-on on-line market. While it’s turning into more and more frequent to purchase EVs on-line, the follow of shopping for a brand new automobile on the internet actually picked up steam during the pandemic, when some corporations supplied the choice of getting the automobile delivered proper to your door quickly after you clicked the Buy button. Now, having automobiles out there on one of many greatest ecommerce web sites is more likely to make the prospect of one-click procuring much more attractive. Just know that Jeff Bezos in all probability gained’t allow you to haggle.

Here’s another shopper tech information from this week.

Sonos Is Releasing … Something

Sonos, builder of every kind of audio system and audio gear, has a new product coming next year. It’s not clear precisely what the system will likely be, however in an earnings report launched this week, Sonos CEO Patrick Spence mentioned the corporate deliberate to launch its first entry in a “multibillion-dollar category” within the second half of subsequent 12 months.

Previous leaks have pointed to the corporate probably entering into the headphone sport. That may very well be an enormous transfer for Sonos, which has till now been solely centered on related audio system and amplifiers. The identical sources who spilled the headphone information additionally revealed the corporate is contemplating shedding a few of its labor power, which may both be as a result of the corporate is struggling to maneuver {hardware} or as a result of layoffs are simply the thing for big tech companies to be doing these days.

Hang Tight

Inventor Simone Giertz has gone from constructing shitty robots to creating helpful units that you simply in all probability may not even understand you want. Her internet retailer Yetch (a phonetic spelling of how her final title is pronounced) options an LED-powered calendar and a hoop with a Phillips head screwdriver original into it. Giertz’s newest invention is the Coat Hinger—a steel coat hanger that folds in on itself to take up much less room. It’s a intelligent answer for folks with small closets or minimal area to hold garments. There’s additionally an possibility to purchase a set of hangers on a customized rod that may be resized to suit quite a lot of areas. The rod even has grooves to area out garments correctly. Giertz introduced the product on Instagram.

The Hinger is being funded through a Kickstarter marketing campaign and can ultimately be bought at Giertz’s Yetch retailer. We don’t usually advocate Kickstarter initiatives right here. Too typically, the factor you paid for way back by no means exhibits up. Or if it does, the ultimate product doesn’t ship on the unique promise. But the marketing campaign has already properly exceeded its purpose. And Giertz, who has graced the duvet of WIRED, has a confirmed observe report of truly producing cool, helpful devices.

Inside Mirai

One day in 2016, the web collapsed. A malware device referred to as Mirai enabled a large denial-of-service assault that took benefit of 1000’s of related sensible dwelling units to overload the servers supporting a number of the greatest websites on-line. Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack, even WIRED all went down, inflicting chaos throughout the net. It left cybersecurity researchers reeling. It additionally made the FBI sit up and take discover.

Turns out, Mirai was the creation of three younger hackers, all of their teenagers or barely 20 years previous. This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, senior author Andy Greenberg joins the present to speak about how he bought the three hackers who created Mirai to inform their story for the primary time in WIRED’s newest cover story.