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Nest Will Now Work With Your Door Locks, Light Bulbs and More
An anonymous reader writes with news about 15 new brand partnerships Nest announced today. "When Google purchased Nest Labs – the maker of Internet-connected thermostats and smoke detectors – the search engine giant saw the potential to create a software platform for controlling the myriad everyday devices and gadgets in consumers' homes, a central hub for the so-called "Internet of things." This vision took a major step towards becoming reality Monday morning, when Nest announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that 15 new partners were joining its "Works with Nest" developer program. Soon, everything from washing machines to light bulbs will be connected with the Nest platform."
A bunch of people with money they need to part with. The rest of us will continue to not give a crap.
I neither trust, nor do I want this ecosystem of interconnected crap which puts my house on the internet so that I can access it via my fscking cell phone.
So, buy into this, suckers. Get your house hacked, or your personal habits sold, or whatever.
I'm going to continue to assume that most of the vendors jumping on this are a) interested in the analytics data for advertising, and b) grossly incompetent/indifferent to security. I trust neither the intention nor the competence of these companies.
Get off my damned lawn with your pointless gizmos. I have a key and a programmable thermostat which isn't connected to the interweb.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
At least the first generation of Nest units have Zigbee radios, but they've never been enabled as far as I can find. I have no idea whether the second generation units kept the extra radio.
I used to get high on life, but I developed a tolerance. Now I need something stronger.
"You will be able to unlock your front door after viewing this short ad."
..got just a new meaning.