A smart thermostat manages your home’s temperature automatically, but there’s another interesting way to use it: as a motion detector. You just need a little help from IFTTT. How-to Geek walks you ...

I huge fan of connected home technology – specifically, the Nest thermostat. Sure, to the outside observer it may sound odd to drop $200 on a smart thermostat I can control with my smartphone, but my ...

The unit’s motion detector triggers a low-power, high efficient LED lamps set for low brightness. After you pass by the light automatically turns off. The night light feature in on by default for Nest ...

The Nest Protect is a Wi-Fi smoke detector and carbon monoxide monitor that works with an app. It also costs $129. Sound crazy? Maybe not. Lindsey Turrentine EVP, Content and Audience Lindsey ...

Back in 2011, Nest did the impossible: It made thermostats sexy. Apple veterans Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers applied their iPod-designing expertise to the largely utilitarian world of home-climate ...

Nest wants to keep you from being robbed, as well as help you track your kids and let your dog out to pee at 3 am. The Alphabet owned company announced a trio of new products on Wednesday, all ...

I have a decidedly dumb home. But lately I’ve been testing out some products from Nest that promise to make it a bit smarter — and safer. The Google-owned company recently updated all three of the ...

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 ...

Nest has launched Nest Secure, a new home security system that pulls together the company's cameras and more into a whole-home protection platform. Revealed today in San Francisco, CA, Nest Secure ...

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 ...

Home security is one of the first places many smart home upgraders begin, and the past few weeks have had some high-profile entrants to the arena. First came Nest, with its long-anticipated Nest ...