WTH? Google just bought Nest Labs (makers of the Nest Thermostat)

[gorcorps]

I'm gonna LOL when they introduce ads. You go to adjust the temp and a video starts playing for furnace filters.

"click to skip in 5 seconds"

Full color screen feels pretty silly now eh?

 

[Phoenix86]

Don't kid yourself, google already knows where you live and when you're home.

 

[UglyCasanova]

I do like google for searches, and gmail has been nice (but steadily going downhill as new "features" keep being added. How big Google is getting and how far they are from their "don't be evil" philosophy is really quite scary.

 

[zinfamous]

google can put little cameras, sound recorders, and biodetectors in those little gadgets.

How else would you expect them to harvest your precious bodily fluids while out of their reach?

 

[marvdmartian]

Someone just had a serious cha-ching! moment. Good for them! :thumbsup:

I like the concept of the Nest thermostats, but believe they should be half the price point they're asking for them. If the price ever falls, I might buy one.

Also, I've oftentimes been confused with the combination smoke and CO detector. Smoke rises. Carbon Monoxide is heavier than air, so falls. If your smoke & CO detector is on the wall, won't the damn thing go off too late to warn you about excessive carbon monoxide??

 

[Nintendesert]

google can put little cameras, sound recorders, and biodetectors in those little gadgets.

How else would you expect them to harvest your precious bodily fluids while out of their reach?

They will introduce Google-Real Dolls and collect your fluids that way.

 

[WelshBloke]

Have they been pulled from the Apple store yet?

 

[Exterous]

If your house is cold you'll start seeing ads for comforters and electric heaters when you surf.

Just wait till they get greedy. "Google has decided you should buy more comforters and heaters. Please watch these ads while we lower your temperature settings."

Google has really been overpaying for things recently.

Maybe they have so much money they've lost perspective.

Google exec: *sees the word 'million' in a paper* "Hey, someone spelled billion wrong!"

To turn on the heat, you must first create a Google+ account.

And constantly update the interface and functionality of your thermostat for no reason what so ever.

 

[rcpratt]

Haha. I emailed Nest requesting a refund of my 3-month old Nest Thermostat on the sole basis that I didn't want a Google Nest.

Even offered shipping.

Wasn't really planning on returning it...

 

[Lanyap]

I'm going to google your thermostat

 

[gorcorps]

Don't kid yourself, google already knows where you live and when you're home.

Well yeah

Just with my phone Google Now learned pretty quick what time I left for work, the exact gps coordinates of my desk (when the phone stopped moving), and then the time I usually headed home.

Pretty creepy really

 

[MarkXIX]

Also, I've oftentimes been confused with the combination smoke and CO detector. Smoke rises. Carbon Monoxide is heavier than air, so falls. If your smoke & CO detector is on the wall, won't the damn thing go off too late to warn you about excessive carbon monoxide??

Not this again. Read any of about one million pages about this and please don't perpetuate it any further. Heck, read the Nest website about it as a starting point.

 

[Miramonti]

The plague. Avoiding like.

 

[NFS4]

Check out Nest's Facebook page. People are none too pleased about this announcement.

 

[halik]

To turn on the heat, you must first create a Google+ account.

HAAAAH. It will post to your feed circle thing every time you change the temperature; they need to get people into google plus any way they can.

 

[BoberFett]

Google is watching
-your email
-your shopping habits
-your web searches
-your map searches
-the types of news you read
-you masturbate
-your social media posts
-your blog posts

And now the temperature of your house, and also when you usually go out.

Most of those things fall under the masturbation umbrella...

 

[BoberFett]

Well yeah

Just with my phone Google Now learned pretty quick what time I left for work, the exact gps coordinates of my desk (when the phone stopped moving), and then the time I usually headed home.

Pretty creepy really

I turned off Now because it's a battery hog. But my phone also liked to tell me how long my commute home was as soon as I got to work. Really? Is that something that needs to be updated all day? I did kind of like it telling me based on my calendar and travel time when I should leave home. But it's not worth the battery drain.

 

[SP33Demon]

Well yeah

Just with my phone Google Now learned pretty quick what time I left for work, the exact gps coordinates of my desk (when the phone stopped moving), and then the time I usually headed home.

Pretty creepy really

You realize that you have the option to turn GPS off on your phone? And you don't have to buy a stupid Nest? FFS people.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I thought Apple owned that?

Either way, that is definitely creepy. Glad I did not buy into that. I made my own thermostat system before that came out. (actually, think that may have came out around the same time but I only heard about it after I was done).

Yoyu can't trust anything these days, DIY is always better, especially with home automation stuff.

I foresee Google getting into more home automation/security stuff in the near future. Heck, the NSA would probably even fund all of that.

 

[WelshBloke]

Check out Nest's Facebook page. People are none too pleased about this announcement.

People are generally idiots though.

 

[Triumph]

google can put little cameras, sound recorders, and biodetectors in those little gadgets.

How else would you expect them to harvest your precious bodily fluids while out of their reach?

Have you ever seen a Google employee drink a glass of water, zin? Why do you think that is?

 

[postmortemIA]

beside obvious goal to tie you more into their services, this is also in line with their power efficiency initiative, like having data centers run on renewable energy. they are betting big that green power is the future

 

[KlokWyze]

Have a gen 2 sitting around waiting for me to install. I'm lazy.

 

[mikeford]

Nest must have had some interesting patents, as the device doesn't seem that "unique" to me, either that or a combination with getting the brains inside of Nest.

 

[spidey07]

Nest must have had some interesting patents, as the device doesn't seem that "unique" to me, either that or a combination with getting the brains inside of Nest.

Umm.

It gets folks to install meters on their consumption of energy through google.

Control everything.

Power company do it? Bad!
Google? Ok! They are good best company #1 happy lucky family we so smart!