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Tony Fadell is a name you may recognize; he use to work at Apple on a little product that just turned ten years old, the iPod. He left Apple spent a year in Paris and came back to create a new company Nest Labs. The first product to come to market — a thermostat.
…the architects presented him with the options for the thermostats that would adorn the walls of his perfect home.
They sucked.
“What was wrong with them?” he now says. “They were ugly. They were confusing. They were incredibly expensive. They didn’t have half the features you would expect for a modern thing. None of them were connected, so they didn’t talk to each other. I wasn’t able to remotely control them. In Tahoe, you want to be able check on the temperature of the house or turn it on before you get there. Because it’s really cold in the winter. I couldn’t do any of that, and I was like, Why is this?”
This is disruptive technology at its best.
Don’t you hate your thermostat? I do. It’s an awful white plastic box. Did I program it? No, too difficult. New plan; get a Nest.
As you can see it is a beautifully simple device. A jewel.
Watch this video and you’ll order one too.
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