December 17, 2018 • 8 mins
A look at the gadgets that can help stop porch pirates from stealing your online orders. We talk to the folks at Google about Nest Hello, the founder of Ring about the impact their video doorbells have had and take a look at a new climate controlled lock box called the DynoSafe.Nest Hellohttps://nest.com/doorbell/nest-hello/overview/Ring Video Doorbell 2https://amzn.to/2LqLUFmDynoSafehttp://dynosafe.com/101 Handy Tech Tips for the iPhonehttps://amzn.to/2Ey0ZUNFollow Rich on Social Media:Facebook: http://facebook.com/RichOnTechTwitter: http://twitter.com/richdemuroInstagram: http://instagram.com/richontech Easy ways to listen on your phone or smart speaker:"Hey Google, Play the Rich on Tech Podcast""Hey Siri, Play the Rich on Tech Podcast""Alexa, Enable the Rich on Tech Flash Briefing"
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
The tech that can prevent ports pirates. What's going on?
I'm Rich Demiro. This is Rich on Tech Erg Madies.
Whether you believe it or not, ports pirates are a thing.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, the USPS actually says they deliver eight hundred million
holiday packages and nearly one third of Americans are reporting
package theft.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
That's Google Search trends expert Justin Burr, So.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Google's here to help with that. Actually, we have two
security cameras, the Nest Cam and then the smart doorbell
the Nest to load it can actually just help you
know what's going on on your doorstep at all times,
so you see a package be delivered and can go
out there and make sure that it's not sitting out
there for too long and actually just grab it and
put it inside. So just making sure that you are
aware of when that package is actually delivered, so you
can't give those individuals any any time to actually go
(00:49):
out there and potentially steal from the doorstep.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I love my nestcams which do a unique thing with AI.
They can actually recognize faces in and outside of your
home and send you an alert when one of their
cameras recognized as an unfamiliar face It's not always perfect,
but it is pretty neat to get a little thumbnail
sent to your smartphone that has a snapshot of the
person walking up to your home. Both the nestcams and
the Nest Video doorbell are great for live video, but
(01:13):
you do need a subscription to go back and watch
anything that just happened. So the other day, my kid
fell in the dining room and we wanted to figure
out what happened? Do you slip on the rug? What
do you slip on a toy? When I went back
to look at the tape from our nestcam, I realized
it wasn't actually recording. Yeah, big problem. So when you
first get one of these cameras, you do get the
recording history as a free trial, but if you don't
(01:35):
sign up for the monitoring service afterwards, you don't get it.
So otherwise you can only access a live stream. And
if you were holding out because it was too expensive
for the monitoring service, you'll be happy to know that
Nest just introduced a cheaper version of its yearly subscription,
which is called Nest Aware. You can now get a
five day recording history, which we'll have twenty four to
seven video for five full days for just fifty dollars
(01:58):
for the year. They still have the ten days video
history for one hundred dollars a year and a thirty
day video history for three hundred dollars a year. But
I think for a lot of people five days is
probably enough to know that something happened and you want
to go back and look. You might need more time, though,
if you're using one of these cameras at a rental property,
or if you just like the idea of having the
extra time. Nestcam start at two hundred dollars. The Nest
(02:20):
Hello video doorbell is two hundred and twenty nine dollars.
The big thing to know about the video doorbell from
Nest is that you need a wired doorbell. You also
need a chime and the right transformer for it to work.
It's not as diy as the video doorbell that started
at all from the folks at Ring. Recently I met
up with founder Jamie Simonov. He was famously on Shark
(02:40):
Tank but did not make a deal. But a lot
has changed since then.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
What Rings change is presence. So we were not in
our neighborhoods where both you know, both spouses work. Now
our kids are busier, so our houses are empty, and
now we have these packages there. What Rings change is
the presence someone comes up, you get an alert, you
open it up. They're bending down and you have these videos.
They're bending down to pick up that package and say, hey,
get out of here. And that's how you can stop
(03:03):
the porch piracy.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Ring's second generation video doorbell is two hundred dollars. What's
neat about Ring is that it can be installed on
the outside of any home. Now, they do have models
that do require some wiring, but they're basic versions. You
just pop on the wall and that's it. It's ready
to go as long as you have a Wi Fi connection.
The new version of their product, the Ring Video Doorbell, too,
has better video quality, plus a battery that you can
(03:25):
easily pop out of the bottom of the device so
you can recharge it.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
During the holidays. You want to be much more sensitive
to this. There's just more of these packages out there,
which brings out more of these porch pirates. So if
you don't have a Ring, have a neighbor come over
and check for packages. If you're going to be away,
maybe ask the package person to put it around the side.
There's things also like Amazon Key, which is a way
of actually allowing the delivery to go into the home.
(03:51):
So there's a lot of different options you can do. Obviously,
we believe a ring system is great, but really it's
delivering that presence of getting that package either out of
the way or being as if you're home.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I did a story with Ring back in the day
when their first product was called the door Bot. I
remember Jamie telling me that people didn't like the name
because it was too techy for something that they placed
outside their front door, which apparently many see as a
very sacred place. So I wanted to know from Jamie
after all these years, does having a ring video doorbell
make a difference.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
So not only do I think having a ring has
affected the difference of your safety, but we have video
after video after video showing how it's proven that when
someone comes and you answer it and you talk to
that person, that we've been able to stop crimes before
they happen.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Earlier this year, Amazon purchased Ring for a reported billion dollars.
These synergy makes a lot of sense. Less packages stolen
mean happier customers and less money lost due to theft. Plus,
Amazon can promote the heck out of Rings products.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So yeah, Amazon purchased us earlier this year, and it's
actually been great. They've really left us alone to build
and to keep building on our mission and reducing crime
in neighborhoods, and they've just they've been a great foundation
to accelerate off of. So far, we've really worked more
on just having them sort of assist RING at really
realizing our vision and our mission it is. I mean,
Amazon is a huge force, and you know, we're just
(05:11):
happy to be part of the team with that.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Ring charges thirty dollars a year for their monitoring service,
which again I highly recommend. This lets you access recordings
of everyone who walks up to your front door or
rings your doorbell. Depending on how you have things set up,
you can set up RING in two different ways. You
can do these motion zones where anyone who walks in
that zone will trigger a recording, or you can actually
have it set up where it only records when someone
(05:34):
actually physically presses the doorbell. That will result in longer
battery life, but I find that the battery either way
is pretty darn good. And finally, for a more fortified solution,
I talk to the founders of dino Safe. This is
another trend we're seeing giant lock boxes that you can
put outside your front door. This goes back to the
old days of the milkman. I used to have a
lot of neighbors that had those refrigerated boxes where you
(05:56):
get milk delivered outside your porch. Now those were not locked. Yes,
people didn't really steal milk. But these things are giant
kind of coolers that can hold packages and in this case,
refrigerated goods because you actually plug the dino safe in
and it's climate controlled. I talked to founder Rebecca Romanucci,
founder and CEO of dino Safe.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
It's a container that secures to your porch and it's
climate controlled. So now you can order all of your
online orders that you normally do, but now you can
also order perishable items like groceries and electronics, flowers, medication,
and it's going to be kept safe from theft of
porch pirates as well as secure from the elements heat, rain, ice,
(06:42):
all of those things. So it provides the opportunity for
us to order everything.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So imagine a high tech cooler. This thing is a
bit big, but we're only getting more and more stuff delivered.
And this one even lets you get items like groceries,
which is handy for Amazon Prime. Now sometimes you get
milk delivered through their eggs. Whatever you need, this thing
can hold on to it.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
It also has an alarm, so if it's moved, it
will notify the owner as well as let your neighbors know.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So how does it work, Well, it's all about those
one time codes.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
You go over to our app, you get a one
time use for digit code. You put that on the
delivery instructions on your order, and when the delivery person
makes that delivery, he or she puts that four digit
code in. The device unlocks, they put the order in
and it closes. This is the first device that also
permits you to have multiple deliveries in a day. They
(07:34):
all have their own code and they all lock as soon.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
As it's closed.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Then you wherever you are receive an alert on your
phone that or smart device that a delivery has been made.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I love this idea and I'm getting lots of pitches
for similar boxes. The Dino Safe is eight hundred and
fifty dollars. It goes on sale in twenty nineteen. No
doubt there will be plenty of others and the prices
will come down. There are even apartment and condo buildings
building in similar technologies. I mean, let's face it, the
delivery thing is only going to get bigger, and to
be able to get regular stuff, expensive stuff, and even
(08:06):
cold stuff just takes the stress out of online ordering.
Just want to say a quick thanks to everyone who
has purchased a copy of my book, and boy there
are a lot of you. Thank you so much for
the support. It's called one hundred and one handy tech
tips for the iPhone. If you're finding any of my
book helpful, useful in enlightening, whatever, I would love a
review on Amazon. It really helps, so thanks so much
(08:27):
in advance for that. It only takes a second and
it really helps other buyers of the book. You can
find links to everything I mentioned here on the website,
Rich on tech dot tv, or you can check the
show notes. I'm Rich Demiro. I'll talk to you real soon.
The tech that can prevent ports pirates. What's going on?
I'm Rich Demiro. This is Rich on Tech Erg Madies.
Whether you believe it or not, ports pirates are a thing.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, the USPS actually says they deliver eight hundred million
holiday packages and nearly one third of Americans are reporting
package theft.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
That's Google Search trends expert Justin Burr, So.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Google's here to help with that. Actually, we have two
security cameras, the Nest Cam and then the smart doorbell
the Nest to load it can actually just help you
know what's going on on your doorstep at all times,
so you see a package be delivered and can go
out there and make sure that it's not sitting out
there for too long and actually just grab it and
put it inside. So just making sure that you are
aware of when that package is actually delivered, so you
can't give those individuals any any time to actually go
(00:49):
out there and potentially steal from the doorstep.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I love my nestcams which do a unique thing with AI.
They can actually recognize faces in and outside of your
home and send you an alert when one of their
cameras recognized as an unfamiliar face It's not always perfect,
but it is pretty neat to get a little thumbnail
sent to your smartphone that has a snapshot of the
person walking up to your home. Both the nestcams and
the Nest Video doorbell are great for live video, but
(01:13):
you do need a subscription to go back and watch
anything that just happened. So the other day, my kid
fell in the dining room and we wanted to figure
out what happened? Do you slip on the rug? What
do you slip on a toy? When I went back
to look at the tape from our nestcam, I realized
it wasn't actually recording. Yeah, big problem. So when you
first get one of these cameras, you do get the
recording history as a free trial, but if you don't
(01:35):
sign up for the monitoring service afterwards, you don't get it.
So otherwise you can only access a live stream. And
if you were holding out because it was too expensive
for the monitoring service, you'll be happy to know that
Nest just introduced a cheaper version of its yearly subscription,
which is called Nest Aware. You can now get a
five day recording history, which we'll have twenty four to
seven video for five full days for just fifty dollars
(01:58):
for the year. They still have the ten days video
history for one hundred dollars a year and a thirty
day video history for three hundred dollars a year. But
I think for a lot of people five days is
probably enough to know that something happened and you want
to go back and look. You might need more time, though,
if you're using one of these cameras at a rental property,
or if you just like the idea of having the
extra time. Nestcam start at two hundred dollars. The Nest
(02:20):
Hello video doorbell is two hundred and twenty nine dollars.
The big thing to know about the video doorbell from
Nest is that you need a wired doorbell. You also
need a chime and the right transformer for it to work.
It's not as diy as the video doorbell that started
at all from the folks at Ring. Recently I met
up with founder Jamie Simonov. He was famously on Shark
(02:40):
Tank but did not make a deal. But a lot
has changed since then.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
What Rings change is presence. So we were not in
our neighborhoods where both you know, both spouses work. Now
our kids are busier, so our houses are empty, and
now we have these packages there. What Rings change is
the presence someone comes up, you get an alert, you
open it up. They're bending down and you have these videos.
They're bending down to pick up that package and say, hey,
get out of here. And that's how you can stop
(03:03):
the porch piracy.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Ring's second generation video doorbell is two hundred dollars. What's
neat about Ring is that it can be installed on
the outside of any home. Now, they do have models
that do require some wiring, but they're basic versions. You
just pop on the wall and that's it. It's ready
to go as long as you have a Wi Fi connection.
The new version of their product, the Ring Video Doorbell, too,
has better video quality, plus a battery that you can
(03:25):
easily pop out of the bottom of the device so
you can recharge it.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
During the holidays. You want to be much more sensitive
to this. There's just more of these packages out there,
which brings out more of these porch pirates. So if
you don't have a Ring, have a neighbor come over
and check for packages. If you're going to be away,
maybe ask the package person to put it around the side.
There's things also like Amazon Key, which is a way
of actually allowing the delivery to go into the home.
(03:51):
So there's a lot of different options you can do. Obviously,
we believe a ring system is great, but really it's
delivering that presence of getting that package either out of
the way or being as if you're home.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I did a story with Ring back in the day
when their first product was called the door Bot. I
remember Jamie telling me that people didn't like the name
because it was too techy for something that they placed
outside their front door, which apparently many see as a
very sacred place. So I wanted to know from Jamie
after all these years, does having a ring video doorbell
make a difference.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
So not only do I think having a ring has
affected the difference of your safety, but we have video
after video after video showing how it's proven that when
someone comes and you answer it and you talk to
that person, that we've been able to stop crimes before
they happen.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Earlier this year, Amazon purchased Ring for a reported billion dollars.
These synergy makes a lot of sense. Less packages stolen
mean happier customers and less money lost due to theft. Plus,
Amazon can promote the heck out of Rings products.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So yeah, Amazon purchased us earlier this year, and it's
actually been great. They've really left us alone to build
and to keep building on our mission and reducing crime
in neighborhoods, and they've just they've been a great foundation
to accelerate off of. So far, we've really worked more
on just having them sort of assist RING at really
realizing our vision and our mission it is. I mean,
Amazon is a huge force, and you know, we're just
(05:11):
happy to be part of the team with that.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Ring charges thirty dollars a year for their monitoring service,
which again I highly recommend. This lets you access recordings
of everyone who walks up to your front door or
rings your doorbell. Depending on how you have things set up,
you can set up RING in two different ways. You
can do these motion zones where anyone who walks in
that zone will trigger a recording, or you can actually
have it set up where it only records when someone
(05:34):
actually physically presses the doorbell. That will result in longer
battery life, but I find that the battery either way
is pretty darn good. And finally, for a more fortified solution,
I talk to the founders of dino Safe. This is
another trend we're seeing giant lock boxes that you can
put outside your front door. This goes back to the
old days of the milkman. I used to have a
lot of neighbors that had those refrigerated boxes where you
(05:56):
get milk delivered outside your porch. Now those were not locked. Yes,
people didn't really steal milk. But these things are giant
kind of coolers that can hold packages and in this case,
refrigerated goods because you actually plug the dino safe in
and it's climate controlled. I talked to founder Rebecca Romanucci,
founder and CEO of dino Safe.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
It's a container that secures to your porch and it's
climate controlled. So now you can order all of your
online orders that you normally do, but now you can
also order perishable items like groceries and electronics, flowers, medication,
and it's going to be kept safe from theft of
porch pirates as well as secure from the elements heat, rain, ice,
(06:42):
all of those things. So it provides the opportunity for
us to order everything.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So imagine a high tech cooler. This thing is a
bit big, but we're only getting more and more stuff delivered.
And this one even lets you get items like groceries,
which is handy for Amazon Prime. Now sometimes you get
milk delivered through their eggs. Whatever you need, this thing
can hold on to it.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
It also has an alarm, so if it's moved, it
will notify the owner as well as let your neighbors know.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So how does it work, Well, it's all about those
one time codes.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
You go over to our app, you get a one
time use for digit code. You put that on the
delivery instructions on your order, and when the delivery person
makes that delivery, he or she puts that four digit
code in. The device unlocks, they put the order in
and it closes. This is the first device that also
permits you to have multiple deliveries in a day. They
(07:34):
all have their own code and they all lock as soon.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
As it's closed.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Then you wherever you are receive an alert on your
phone that or smart device that a delivery has been made.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I love this idea and I'm getting lots of pitches
for similar boxes. The Dino Safe is eight hundred and
fifty dollars. It goes on sale in twenty nineteen. No
doubt there will be plenty of others and the prices
will come down. There are even apartment and condo buildings
building in similar technologies. I mean, let's face it, the
delivery thing is only going to get bigger, and to
be able to get regular stuff, expensive stuff, and even
(08:06):
cold stuff just takes the stress out of online ordering.
Just want to say a quick thanks to everyone who
has purchased a copy of my book, and boy there
are a lot of you. Thank you so much for
the support. It's called one hundred and one handy tech
tips for the iPhone. If you're finding any of my
book helpful, useful in enlightening, whatever, I would love a
review on Amazon. It really helps, so thanks so much
(08:27):
in advance for that. It only takes a second and
it really helps other buyers of the book. You can
find links to everything I mentioned here on the website,
Rich on tech dot tv, or you can check the
show notes. I'm Rich Demiro. I'll talk to you real soon.
Host
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