Coming to a kitchen near you—an Alexa-branded toaster

Amazon’s Alexa-enabled devices are already in more than 100 million homes—but an Echo may be just the beginning of the Seattle-based ecommerce giant’s foray into the home.  In late September, Amazon filed a trademark application for Alexa-branded home appliances. The filing is exhaustive and includes more than 100 different household products, from the mundane—“smart home connected LED lighting systems”—to the rare—“voice-responsive ice-