Yep, Big Mouth Billy Bass has been hacked, and it’s awesome. Or is it?
The future is now according to it’s creator who used Alexa to bring Billy to life.
See the viral video for yourself, and you be the judge.
Awesome, terrible, or both?
According to Gizmodo: Brian Kane is a developer and artist who specializes in humorous projects. For his latest work, he’s modded up the venerable novelty item and instead of hearing Alexa’s calming voice coming from an innocuous glowing hockey puck, you get to look at a reanimated piece of plastic taxidermy mouth the weather report.
Kane hasn’t given a tutorial on how he approached the Bass/Assistant horror hybrid but Amazon does have an API available that allows users to embed the tech in third party devices.
Every time your dear old dad needs to order some new lures and hooks he’ll think of you as he giggles to himself that it’s a fish (a fish!) that’s ordering the tools that brought about its own demise.
