[accountyaccount]

This effectively makes the Echo Show a circa-1995 video phone for remote grandparenting.

[intopieces]

I was only 8 in 1995, can you link me to a such a device? I'd like to compare.

[accountyaccount]

Sure, I was thinking of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULX-omgUzIc

But in general the product has been around in some (generally expensive) form since the '70s.