If you tell the Echo where you work, you can also get traffic reports for your commute.
Sony introduced an Internet-connected alarm clock that will wake you up with your favorite music videos and traffic forecasts for your commute.
At the end of your work day, it will start telling you about routes for your commute home, and whether trains are delayed or roads congested.
As on other e-readers, you can subscribe to newspapers; if you're in a Wi-Fi hot spot, the paper arrives on your reader automatically in the middle of the night, ready for your commute.
Do you a) save The Emperor Waltz for your return, when you won't read it because it's too bulky for your commute, or b) fork out another tenner for the Kindle edition?
Hatching eggs is one of the best ways to get powerful Pokémon, but if you don't walk for your commute or in your general day, it can be hard to clock up the kilometres required to incubate them.
At its most basic level, this is how the benefit tends to work nowadays, after about 25 years of evolution: Your employer, if it offers this option at all, will let you take money out of your paycheck, before it takes out money for income and other taxes, to pay for your commute.
As you buckle up for your commute to or from work, you can flip open your phone for a live cam's-eye view of the traffic you are about to encounter, while there is still time to take an alternate route.
