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Imagine a calm female voice alerting you, “Heads up! There's smoke in the kitchen”. Does this sound better than the panic-stricken and sometimes painful sounding smoke detector noises? Nest, who's previous product was their Nest Learning Thermostat, used for accurately adjusting your heating and cooling as it learns when you are away from home, introduced the new Nest Protect. Previous Apple engineer and VP, Tony Fadell, is the founder of Nest, a company built around the notion that you do not need to hate your boring and complicated home sensors. With plenty of success coming from the Nest thermostat in 2011, it was all about rethinking how a mundane device most people have in their homes could encompass modern design and software. Despite the steep price of $249, the thermostat was an immediate hit, and since launch two years ago it's become “the poster child for a new wave of high-tech home improvement products”. I say kudos to Fadell, for bringing such innovation to such a simple household necessity. But now, onto the new product, Nest Protect.
The new smoke detector follows the same trajectory as the thermostat. It is small and elegant in appearance rather than the industrial-looking, white and round smoke alarm in your home now. Appearance being elegant is good, even better when performance has an elegance to it as well. Rather than loud beeping when smoke is detected, it tells you exactly what and where the smoke is coming from, and all you do to shut it up is wave your hand at it. The notorious burnt toast dilemma would require such a gesture. It will last for years on batteries, and like other communications, will alert your smartphone when they are in need of replacement. Also serving as an activity sensor for the thermostat because it senses motion and carbon monoxide. If carbon monoxide is detected in the air, Protect will communicate with Nest Thermostat (if you have one) telling it to turn off your gas furnace or whatever appliance the leak is coming from. Another perk for people away from home most of the day is the ability for the thermostat to auto adjust AC and heat simply by using the activity and motion sensors from the Nest Protect. Motion sensing comes in for situations as simple as walking through the hallway at night, and it takes that as a clue to light your path as you walk, then dim as you pass.
Of course, if something more serious is happening in your home, Protect gets straight to the point and will say the word “emergency” while sounding a horn. Although the hefty price of $129 a pop, having multiple detectors in your home could benefit you by smart communication. Say the Protect device located in your bedroom is detecting smoke, but you are in the living room. It will tell you in the room you are in, as these units communicate over Wi-Fi. The completely rebuilt Nest app works on Android and iOS devices for status updates and notifications from either Nest device. In the case of an emergency, a “What To Do” screen will pop up with the emergency phone button to call 911. A bummer in my opinion is what it cannot do, which is shut off the alarm from the app. However, due to safety regulations doing the manual “wave” at the detector rather than a tap of a button on a phone is the safer alternative. Protect also self-tests every ten minutes and glows green to let you know it is fine, the ring-shaped light being one of it's primary ways of communicating with you. Yellow light means either something is being detected or low battery, and naturally, red will indicate a true emergency. In many ways the “Father of the iPod is Apple-ifying your home, one small appliance at a time”, planting that Internet of Things seed we will eventually be adjusting to. The one thing different from Apple products like the iPod is, a bug or system defect is inexcusable. Nest Protect “cannot fail”, and with that comes about a year of an approval process before it can be sold. Still I can't help but think, with the highest selling smoke detector on Amazon being only $31, is a simple home device such as this good enough for the cost?
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Imagine a calm female voice alerting you, “Heads up! There's smoke in the kitchen”. Does this sound better than the panic-stricken and sometimes painful sounding smoke detector noises? Nest, who's previous product was their Nest Learning Thermostat, used for accurately adjusting your heating and cooling as it learns when you are away from home, introduced the new Nest Protect. Previous Apple engineer and VP, Tony Fadell, is the founder of Nest, a company built around the notion that you do not need to hate your boring and complicated home sensors. With plenty of success coming from the Nest thermostat in 2011, it was all about rethinking how a mundane device most people have in their homes could encompass modern design and software. Despite the steep price of $249, the thermostat was an immediate hit, and since launch two years ago it's become “the poster child for a new wave of high-tech home improvement products”. I say kudos to Fadell, for bringing such innovation to such a simple household necessity. But now, onto the new product, Nest Protect.
The new smoke detector follows the same trajectory as the thermostat. It is small and elegant in appearance rather than the industrial-looking, white and round smoke alarm in your home now. Appearance being elegant is good, even better when performance has an elegance to it as well. Rather than loud beeping when smoke is detected, it tells you exactly what and where the smoke is coming from, and all you do to shut it up is wave your hand at it. The notorious burnt toast dilemma would require such a gesture. It will last for years on batteries, and like other communications, will alert your smartphone when they are in need of replacement. Also serving as an activity sensor for the thermostat because it senses motion and carbon monoxide. If carbon monoxide is detected in the air, Protect will communicate with Nest Thermostat (if you have one) telling it to turn off your gas furnace or whatever appliance the leak is coming from. Another perk for people away from home most of the day is the ability for the thermostat to auto adjust AC and heat simply by using the activity and motion sensors from the Nest Protect. Motion sensing comes in for situations as simple as walking through the hallway at night, and it takes that as a clue to light your path as you walk, then dim as you pass.
Of course, if something more serious is happening in your home, Protect gets straight to the point and will say the word “emergency” while sounding a horn. Although the hefty price of $129 a pop, having multiple detectors in your home could benefit you by smart communication. Say the Protect device located in your bedroom is detecting smoke, but you are in the living room. It will tell you in the room you are in, as these units communicate over Wi-Fi. The completely rebuilt Nest app works on Android and iOS devices for status updates and notifications from either Nest device. In the case of an emergency, a “What To Do” screen will pop up with the emergency phone button to call 911. A bummer in my opinion is what it cannot do, which is shut off the alarm from the app. However, due to safety regulations doing the manual “wave” at the detector rather than a tap of a button on a phone is the safer alternative. Protect also self-tests every ten minutes and glows green to let you know it is fine, the ring-shaped light being one of it's primary ways of communicating with you. Yellow light means either something is being detected or low battery, and naturally, red will indicate a true emergency. In many ways the “Father of the iPod is Apple-ifying your home, one small appliance at a time”, planting that Internet of Things seed we will eventually be adjusting to. The one thing different from Apple products like the iPod is, a bug or system defect is inexcusable. Nest Protect “cannot fail”, and with that comes about a year of an approval process before it can be sold. Still I can't help but think, with the highest selling smoke detector on Amazon being only $31, is a simple home device such as this good enough for the cost? 
