Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Monday, July 16th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, a Roku wireless speaker, better Uber pickups, Insta Paper goes solo, what to expect from the

Galaxy S10, and happy Amazon Prime Day everybody. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Guess who else has decided to get into the speaker game.

Roku.

The company today unveiled Roku TV wireless speakers that use the company's Roku Connect

platform to link up with Roku powered smart TVs over Wi-Fi.

The speakers are going to be available exclusively from Roku.com in October for $200, but you

can pre-order them today for a first week price of $150.

Now there's a couple of caveats here.

These are not necessarily smart speakers.

These are speakers designed to make your Roku TV sound better.

Roku notes that these days you can spend thousands of dollars to buy a super-thin TV with a great screen,

but inside that thin device you're probably not getting very good speakers because there's just

no room and Roku has been aggressively expanding its line of Roku TV

televisions so these speakers are designed to work specifically with them.

But it's not a full surround sound system, it's a very simple value proposition actually, as Mark

Eli Roku's vice president of product management

streaming experience, and quote.

So again, not a full smart speaker per se, but they do come

with the Roku Voice Remote.

And it's not a sound bar like other companies

have produced as the solution to flat screen TV sound.

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