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hey guys it's Casey with The Verge I'm here at Amazon headquarters in Seattle where they just introduced a ton of new hardware and our favorite thing they showed up today might be this this is the echo spot imagine if the echo show and an echo dot had a baby it might look like this a tiny alarm clock with a two and a half inch screen that is Alexa enabled what does that mean well it can do something that a lot of Alexa enabled devices can do which is control your smart home it can also play music it also has a front-facing camera that means you can use it to make free video calls and by the way starting today you can now use Alexa to make free video calls to anywhere in the United States Canada and Mexico but this device is part of Amazon strategy to bring Alexa absolutely everywhere this thing is gonna go on sale today for pre-order and then we'll start shipping in December and it will cost you one hundred and thirty dollars Amazon thinks that people are gonna get a number of these for their homes maybe you put one on your desk one in the kitchen one in the bedroom that's certainly where I plan on putting mine it's part of their strategy of bringing Alexa absolutely everywhere and so while amazon showed off a ton of things today this one well it might just be the one we think is the most interesting I'm trying to do a blooper farhad it's so hard for me to screw up it's not gonna drop we're not dropping it okay great