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[quote]Google is buying Nest Labs for $3.2 billion.
Nest Labs makes Internet connected thermostats and smoke detectors.
It was founded by Tony Fadell, the guy most responsible for the iPod after Steve Jobs.
It's incredible to think that he's going to be working for Google considering Apple and Google are bitter enemies.
Fadell founded Nest two years ago. There were reports that he was looking at raising a fresh round of funding. Looks like he decided to sell instead. Nest had raised $230 million in funding to date. Google Ventures was one of its biggest backers.
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[url]http://www.businessinsider.com/google-buying-nest-for-35-billion-2014-1[/url]
pretty interesting move
I have 2 nests and 3 nest protects and love them as they are, curious to see what the big G will do with it
Just read up on that Nest Smoke Detector.
Easily gonna buy one once I get the chance. No more towel waving.
I read 3 dollars, 28 cents
Lol
Not surprising. I kind of figured they would get bought up fast.
Although IIRC, the Nest Protect has to be replaced every few years (all carbon monoxide detectors technically expire, but the Nest Protect will literally [b]stop working entirely[/b] to enforce this) which makes it not worth the price in my opinion. There are "name-brand" detectors that do much of the same already for a lower price.
[QUOTE=Snowmew;43525622]Not surprising. I kind of figured they would get bought up fast.
Although IIRC, the Nest Protect has to be replaced every few years (all smoke detectors technically do by code, but the Nest Protect will literally [b]stop working[/b] to enforce this) which makes it not worth the price in my opinion. There are "name-brand" detectors that do much of the same already for a lower price.[/QUOTE]
what
no
it sends you an email and audibly says when to replace the batteries
it doesn't "stop working"
Can't wait for them to shoehorn Google- into it so that nobody in the world can see that my house is on fire.
I always wanted to see what the fuss was about with these thermostats.
Ours is an ancient one that does the job, but I hear that these are quite good though...
[QUOTE=dbk21894;43525651]what
no
it sends you an email and audibly says when to replace the batteries
it doesn't "stop working"[/QUOTE]
Read again. The unit will stop working and you must replace it after 7 years because of the carbon monoxide detector, not the battery. For comparison, a traditional smoke detector and a separate, replaceable carbon monoxide detector will set you back about $50, $25 of which is replaced every 10 years compared to the $129 every 7 for the Nest.
I'm not sure what to think of this
"Would you like to share this housefire with your Google+ circle?
[QUOTE=Snowmew;43525683]Read again. The unit will stop working and you must replace it after 7 years because of the carbon monoxide detector, not the battery. For comparison, a traditional smoke detector and a separate, replaceable carbon monoxide detector will set you back about $50, $25 of which is replaced every 10 years compared to the $120+ every 7 for the Nest.[/QUOTE]
That still seems like a pretty good deal. It's like paying 30 cents a month for a fancier carbon monoxide detector.
Whats funny is apple stores have been selling the Nest for a while. Wonder what they're gonna do now that google owns them
the nest thermostat makes no sense. What does it do that my current thermostat doesnt? to me it looks like an expensive device for people too lazy to take 5 minutes out of their day to program their current thermostat.
that smoke detector is nice though, i might get one just for that spotlight feature since my very long hallway only has a light switch at one end
[QUOTE=Sivics;43525759]That still seems like a pretty good deal. It's like paying 30 cents a month for a fancier carbon monoxide detector.[/QUOTE]
Except when your house has more than one detector.
You don't need carbon monoxide detector in every room of your house; however, it is often required that smoke detectors are located in every room (with some exceptions, such as kitchens). So if you have a large home, you have to pay more for unnecessary CO detectors that must all be replaced.
The Nest Protect also doesn't work with wired detector interconnection (the thing that makes all alarms trip when one alarm detects smoke in a building) so if you replace only some of your smoke alarms, you're now running on two separate systems that aren't connected at all. If, for example, you only replace one alarm in your living room and a fire happens there, the alarms in your bedrooms will not be tripped, and you may not hear the Nest Protect's alarm.
So you have to replace all smoke detectors in your residence. In larger homes, that means 10 (or more) detectors, and then you have to repeat the process every 7 years. If you buy Nest Protects, that means $1300 for every 7 years - if you bought "traditional" equipment it would be $500 to install, then $250 every 7 years after that, for something which will probably not even be noticed more than once every few years for battery replacement (although the Nest Protect's battery-only model chews through the charge much more quickly). So, for 10 detectors, $12.50 a month.
However, there is one little problem - Nest only allows for a maximum of 10 detectors per account. So, if you have more than 10 smoke detectors in your home, you can't actually use this system. (I'm one of those people, so another mark against Nest on that.)
The Nest Protect, despite its price, is also technically [i]inferior[/i] to other detectors due to its use of exclusively optical detection instead of optical + ionization, which shows up in detectors as low as $30.
Above all else, I would wait for gen 2 or later. The gen 1 users for the original Nest were basically guinea pigs and missed out on a lot of new features, and I wouldn't be surprised if Google gets Nest's ass in gear with the gen 2 Protect. Replaceable detector modules, combined ionization & optical detection, utilization of wired interconnect when available, motion detector information (if Nest were to develop a security system, this would be a huge plus), et cetera. Then, just maybe, I'd invest.
I'm not liking how much google is buying
imagine google buying twitch.tv and integrating it into youtube
[QUOTE=meppers;43526019]imagine google buying twitch.tv and integrating it into youtube[/QUOTE]
That would literally be disaster.
Man these smoke detectors are really cool. I'm surprised I've never heard of this company before.
[QUOTE=Snowmew;43525927]HolyCrapThatsaLottaWords[/QUOTE]
Except I will only really need one in my kitchen because that and the living room are the only places that has fire there intentionally. If any other fire alarm goes off, you know you're fucked.
huh, i can personally tell you a certain group
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has been shitting bricks because of nest over the last few years because they did not have anything nearly close in capability to what nest does and instead of improving their shit they just bought up a bunch of patents from a company in ohio so they could sue nest out of existence
only 10% of people with programmable thermostats programmed them
this one learns
it [I]knows[/I]
[QUOTE=Sableye;43527393]huh, i can personally tell you a certain group
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has been shitting bricks because of nest over the last few years because they did not have anything nearly close in capability to what nest does and instead of improving their shit they just bought up a bunch of patents from a company in ohio so they could sue nest out of existence[/QUOTE]
Honeywell has been making thermostats and temperature controls for over 75 years. They aren't rocket science to them. I don't think someone else invading the home market is going to hurt their bottom line that badly, especially when their product is cheaper per unit.
Google+ required for the smoke alarm to function.
[QUOTE=meppers;43526019]imagine google buying twitch.tv and integrating it into youtube[/QUOTE]
Atleast I could watch streams without it freezing every 10 seconds. Cheap bastards.
[QUOTE=Karmah;43525679]I always wanted to see what the fuss was about with these thermostats.
Ours is an ancient one that does the job, but I hear that these are quite good though...[/QUOTE]
Thermostats are getting dumb these days. Where I work, we've started selling these full-color touch-screen thermostats for our top-of-the-line systems. It's a $200+ fucking thermostat with stupid features like "Wifi!" and "Upload your own back-ground!".
IT'S A GOD-DAMN THERMOSTAT. YOU HAVE NO REASON TO HAVE A FULL-COLOR BACK-GROUND ON YOUR FUCKING THERMOSTAT, YOU AREN'T GOING TO BE STARING AT IT ALL DAY!
[QUOTE=Zero-Point;43527790]Thermostats are getting dumb these days. Where I work, we've started selling these full-color touch-screen thermostats for our top-of-the-line systems. It's a $200+ fucking thermostat with stupid features like "Wifi!" and "Upload your own back-ground!".
IT'S A GOD-DAMN THERMOSTAT. YOU HAVE NO REASON TO HAVE A FULL-COLOR BACK-GROUND ON YOUR FUCKING THERMOSTAT, YOU AREN'T GOING TO BE STARING AT IT ALL DAY![/QUOTE]
I would totally love the ability to adjust my thermostat from my phone, though
"Google+ account is not linked with this smoke detector, cannot extinguish."
[QUOTE=Tomthetechy;43527281]Except I will only really need one in my kitchen because that and the living room are the only places that has fire there intentionally. If any other fire alarm goes off, you know you're fucked.[/QUOTE]
Some state building codes require that new or upgraded installations have smoke detectors in every room [i]except[/i] the kitchen, and NFPA recommendations state that you should have interconnected detectors in every sleeping area as well.
I shouldn't know this, but I do.
What is google planning... They bought that robotics company and now this?
"Don't be evil"
also I gladly accept our Google overlords
you had better too or else:
"don't use Google+? that's okay we won't notify you that your house is on fire"
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