Gadgetory

well welcome to the thermostat ions based on my favorite part of any hardware store because it's I don't like taking a trip back in time I mean you can still buy this guy which I don't think it's changed since 1975 and actually it controls about 50% of the energy usage in your homes pretty important it's not very smart now you can try to upgrade and get somebody this cost about a hundred dollars and it's the smart model got a three inch black and white resistive touchscreen has Wi-Fi it has a Marvel processor but because it was essentially designed by a plumbing company you can see it's kind of huge it requires external power to work and it's got this interface with all these buttons and a bunch of arrows and stuff they don't make a lot of sense now I was thinking about something like this this is an iPod Touch it costs $200 it has a three and a half inch multi-touch color display you probably already know how to use it and it's really thin with integrated Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and a battery that kind of lasts forever now what happens if we take something as smart as this and use it to control something as important as that I'm Tony Fadell and I'm CEO of nest I used to work at Apple for nine years basically I managed the iPod division created the iPod 18 generations and then three generations of the iPhone it took some time to decompress after running a running a marathon for nine years we want to just take some time we went around the world we traveled all around and and just kind of got our head out of Silicon Valley and started really concentrating on our kids and and and learning about energy and learning about how we might be able to leave the world in a better place for our kids and our grandkids we were building a green home in Lake Tahoe my architect actually gave us a spec for the heating and cooling system was about fifteen thousand dollars and then this fifteen thousand dollar system was controlled by three hundred fifty dollar thermostats it's like three hundred fifty dollars thermostats what do these do cell phones are less than three hundred fifty dollars these things got to be amazing so give me the spec and they give me the spec and I was like wait a second this thing has their ugly they look like computers from the 90s or all beige boxes they have technology literally from the 80s inside of them were 90s I'm like why am I paying for such junk I said I think I can design a better one we decided to take all the things that we've known in terms of building cell phones and portable devices and a of expertise to a space of energy savings that we think is really important that could help to to reduce your energy bills and save the world traditional thermostats today all they are basically light switches they just turn on and off these two wires but there are lots of nuances about how you turn things on and off there's no standard interface like we have USB or firewire or different types of interfaces for a computer these interfaces are all different for many many systems and these systems can be 50 years old so we had to come up with all the technology to identify the types of heating and cooling units you have it's simply a dial because 99.9 percent of the time all you're doing is turning up and down your heating and cooling if you click on anywhere on the face here or here that's a button that's all it has is a ring and a button you can then scroll through various menu items we have five different sensors we have temperature of course and humidity but we also have light sensors and we also have activity sensors near and far field activity centers which gives up a lot of sensor data to do all kinds of very interesting things today with the first product and also in the future we can detect when you're out of your house for a period of time and then turn it down to a lower energy setting when you come home we turn right back on as if you were at home the entire time so we've saved that amount of energy just by you know you just walking out of the house after the first five to seven days it learns everything it needs to know about your schedule you can actually use our iOS apps for iPad iPhone Android as well as a web browser to get into all the different settings it can help save the environment and save a lot of money and by the way it requires guys with my type of skill to do it's really cool and we're not going to be competing with Apple you know we could make another cell phone or we're but competing with Apple would be hell on earth let's do something that is not like Apple let's go after big dumb slow companies paparazzi yeah the Caminiti the model great okay nuts you shooting for the urge all right here we go