On Monday, Google bought Nest—a maker of high-tech thermostats and smoke detectors—for the princely sum of $3.2 billion. Much of the response so far has involved 1) sussing out the strategy behind ...

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The Nest Protect is a ‘smart’ smoke and carbon monoxide alarm. It gains this moniker because it can connect to the Internet and give status updates through a web browser and status updates and alarm ...

Tony Fadell, CEO of Nest, aims to do for the smoke detector what he did for the lowly thermostat: Turn it into a home gadget everyone covets. Here’s a rundown of Protect’s cleverest fixes. Last summer ...

Nest, the company behind the iPhone-connected Nest Learning Thermostat, is working on developing a smoke detector, reports former Wall Street Journal journalist Jessica Lessin. While information is ...

When Nest Protect detects smoke, it gives and early warning called ‘Heads-Up’ before turning to a loud, howling alarm. The unit lights up yellow and speaks with a human voice, letting people in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — When a group of former Apple Inc. employees announced that they had created a company called Nest to reinvent the thermostat, Silicon Valley did a double take. You left Apple to work ...

"Heads-Up. There's smoke in the hallway,” a firm, direct female voice announced. “The alarm may sound." It was 1:30 in the morning, and everyone in the house was startled out of sleep. The Nest ...

After the iPod and reinventing thermostats, Nest CEO Tony Fadell’s next project is another device in the “unloved” category. You know the drill: The smoke detector screams, people panic, arms and ...