Hands on with Echo Spot, Amazon's alarm clock killer

It didn't take long for Amazon to get bolder with its screen-sporting Echo devices.

The company's new 2.5-inch touchscreen Echo Spot, $129.99, follows the boxy, 7-inch-screen Echo Show by just a few months. It's a much more attractive, smaller and, maybe more approachable,  nightstand-friendly version of that device.

Where the Show is all edges and angles, the Spot is a ball with a flat base and a round, angled flat touchscreen. It's small enough to fit in one hand. Like other Echo devices, it's not battery powered and plugs into a wall outlet.