Filed under Consumer · 2022
Amazon Glow
2021 - 2022, 1 year old
A $300 video-calling device for children that projected interactive games and puzzles onto a table.
Amazon unveiled Glow on September 28, 2021 as an invite-only pandemic product, then opened sales to the general public in March 2022. The device used computer vision to track hands and physical pieces on a projected play surface, letting a remote grandparent see the same puzzle a child was working on. Content partners included Disney, Mattel, Nickelodeon, and Sesame Workshop. Sales were poor, and on October 4, 2022, against a backdrop of broad hardware cost cuts inside Amazon, the company killed Glow roughly a year after launch and offered refunds. Nothing replaced it.
- Founded
- 2021-09
- Shut down
- 2022-10-04
- Funding raised
- Undisclosed
- Years alive
- 1
- Founders
- Amazon