 Hey everybody, it's Ben Popper, The Verge, and I'm here today checking out Amazon's newest offering, Amazon Key. This is a smart home system that's going to allow delivery people to actually open the door, get inside your house, and drop off the package. So there's a couple of pieces that make this work. There is a connected camera that Amazon is selling, and that is sort of like the hub. Now the camera goes inside your house and works with your Wi-Fi network. Then there's a smart lock. You have a few options from big well-known brands. That goes on your door. Now you're going to get an option if you live in a city with this service when you order a package for in-home delivery. That's basically giving permission to the delivery person to come inside your house. You'll get a notification that they're on the way. When the delivery person shows up, they scan the barcode on the package just to double-check that this is the right package at the right place. If everything checks out, the lock will open for them, they'll place the package inside, close the door, and lock it again. In fact, they'll knock first just to be polite and make sure you don't have a big angry dog. After they've dropped off the package, you'll get a notification confirming it and a short video just for peace of mind. So all that is intended to facilitate Amazon's delivery empire, but the camera also works just like an ordinary camera. You can talk to it, it has a microphone and a speaker. If you're down in the basement, you could say, hey Alexa, show me the front door, and the system will do that. Amazon will offer a subscription that will let you save 24 hours of video or more. You can get a whole bunch of cameras. It will do person detection and zone detection, all the things you would expect from a modern-day connected home security camera. And the lock works just like a lock with the Amazon Key app. You could give temporary permission to a friend who's visiting from out of town or recurring permission to a dog walker who comes once a week. In fact, Amazon is hoping that you'll use the key with their services division. So when you start using a service for dog walking or home cleaning, if it's connected and works with Amazon's Key, then you can authorize that person to come use your home while you're at work. So all of this is part of Amazon's push to get deeper and deeper into your home and to make it simpler than ever to order something and have it arrive quickly and cheaply. The big question left is, do you trust Amazon? Do you want them to have a connected camera in your home that's running 24-7 and a lock that works with their delivery people to let them in and out? Amazon is betting that for the convenience of having your packages delivered safely inside, a lot of people will. If you're a Prime customer who's interested in this, you can pre-order starting today. It's $249.99. That'll get you the camera and the lock Amazon will come and install this stuff for you. You could also buy the camera on its own. That's 120 bucks. Now November 8th is when you can download the app and start actually receiving deliveries for this service in 37 cities around the nation.