base station

The phone itself would not be of much use without cellular base stations and all the network infrastructure that is behind them.

The first mobile phone services used small numbers of large radio towers, which meant that all the subscribers in a big city shared one central base station.

Now, however, Alexa comes built into the Blast and Megablast, and UE introduced a base station to convert the speaker into an always-on device like the Amazon Echo.

The test kit includes a swab, a tube of purple chemicals, and a small battery-operated base station.

After swabbing your nose, you stir the swab in the tube and then then click it into place in the base station.

FitBark, available for preorder ($69 for one device, $109 for one device and a base station), is more of a community device.