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You'd think a thermostat should be a trivial device. But you'd be amazed at the complexity people come up with for thermostats, including hundred page manuals, etc., and no way to turn the heat off.
This. I wish I had the balls to do the same!
You'd think a thermostat should be a trivial device. But you'd be amazed at the complexity people come up with for thermostats, including hundred page manuals, etc., and no way to turn the heat off.
I don't understand, why do we need a thermostat in house? Isn't the normal environmental temperature outside just good. Why artificially change it?
You'd think a thermostat should be a trivial device. But you'd be amazed at the complexity people come up with for thermostats, including hundred page manuals, etc., and no way to turn the heat off.
I don't understand, why do we need a thermostat in house? Isn't the normal environmental temperature outside just good. Why artificially change it?
And those are the nice averages. Sometimes (more often than you'd guess) the temperature decides to drop to a nice −20C. In the same place, in the same year, temperature in summer can get to 30C.
I can easily agree that people over regulate temperature — 25C in winter or 20C in summer is probably not that optimal (I just don't do cooling, but offices do). But a lot of people live in areas where the outside temperature is just not an option.
Very cool. I wonder if they will one day interface with your local weather as well (or if it already does). The entire product is non-obvious, but when they've gone this far, seems they'd take the extra step to see if it is going to be 75 outside, and you like it at 70, and it is currently 68, to not turn on the heater, but use the air-conditioner to keep things cool.
From a business standpoint, it seems like Nest Labs will be spending a lot of their time explaining the reason their product is relevant to the consumer. The market is there, but like Tony said in the video, its at a contractor level. Rarely does a consumer decide they need to purchase a thermostat on their own. So if they're honestly planning to sell to consumers directly, they'll have to basically create a marketpl…
That may be because (until now?) there is little to differentiate thermostats.
I assume its trivial for a device as advanced as this, but has anyone spotted if it supports Celsius? Not a big deal in an American market but i'd totally buy one for my home but we silly British people use the metric system.
> He was shocked there wasn’t a single attractive thermostat on the market so he decided to build his own. This. I wish I had the balls to do the same!
This is brilliant. This is the kind of innovation that we should idolize. I feel like we tend to get excited about things like Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram or Color, if it combines all the right buzzwords like social, mobile and photos. We tend to forget what real innovation is. Well, this is it. You're taking a boring, underserved segment of the market and revolutionizing it. And guess what, the potential for soc…
I do agree that this product presents a greater benefit to the earth and humanity as a whole, but my concern is that the populous may not notice. Will enough people buy in to make this economically viable? I certainly hope so....