Tag: nest

Nest Protect Out Of The Fire And Back On Store Shelves

The Nest Protect, the company’s smoke alarm, is now back on store shelves after a new-age product recall of 440,000 units. I say new-age because...

Fire Detectors, Thermostats, And The Stupid Anti-Nest Sentiment From ‘Apple Fans’

On Sunday it was still the coolest thing in home automation gadgets on the market, but 24 hours later it was being ripped out of...

Google Acquires Nest For $3.2B

Google has today acquired connected device company Nest for $3.2 billion in cash.

Nest Protect Wants To Make Your Smoke Detector Cool Again

Smoke detectors are like babies. They’re kind of ugly and they make loud annoying sounds when you don’t want them to. Then again, there is...

Former Apple Executive Says Scott Forstall “Got What He Deserved”

Tony Fadell, a former Apple executive and often considered the “father of the iPod”, sat down with the BBC today to talk about his new...

The Nest Gets Updated, Sheds A Few Pounds Along The Way

It still feels a bit weird calling a thermostat sexy, but let’s be honest with ourselves for a moment, the Nest is as sexy as...

Apple Store To Sell Nest Thermostat for $249.95

The Nest, a high-tech thermostat designed by Tony Fadell, the man behind the iPod, will now be sold at Apple Stores throughout the United States....

Honeywell sues Nest for making a thermostat people actually care about

Chalk one up for patents stifling innovation. Honeywell has filed a lawsuit again Nest and Best Buy for infringing on some of its thermostat technologies....

Prime your nest with the Nest: a major step forward in thermostat technology

Christmas was on a Sunday this year. We had taken care of breakfast, and moved on to opening Christmas presents in the usual fashion, but...

Nest for iPhone reinvents the thermostat

When you think of the technologies in your home that are in need of an upgrade, I’m sure the thermostat isn’t the first to come...