Amazon Echo Show with touchscreen to launch today for $229.99

After cutting its teeth as an online bookseller, Amazon has quietly become one of a small handful of trendsetters in the consumer electronics business. The company's Kindle eBook readers led to a boom in the eReader market, and then Amazon became the only company to contend with Apple's iPad lineup by offering solid tablets at rock bottom prices. Amazon's smartphone ambitions were a rare misstep, but that failure helped the company do some soul-searching. The resulting Amazon Echo woul