Dubbed as the Nest Learning Thermostat, former iPod and iPhone concept developers Tony Faddel and Matt Rogers have birthed a thermostat that can both study its home-dwellers habits and adjust itself to maximize its environment's energy efficiency. Given that in-home climate control accounts for roughly ten percent of all energy consumption in the United States, an intuitive thermostat is a technological breakthrough indeed.
For his part, Faddel has cited the fundamental societal need for an updating of the backward technological standards governing thermostat production and use; and he claimed that his inspiration for Nest's inherent design characteristics was the iPhone itself. He wanted his thermostat solution to reflect the current gadget-toting generation's innate appreciation for both function and form. In fact, Nest's user-interface and versatile programming options strongly resemble those of Apple's famed consumer electronics products. A Nest is even Wi-Fi compatible, enabling its user to control it remotely via the internet.
Slated to be available to the public in November 2011, Nest thermostats will be an interesting product to monitor in an otherwise ho-hum niche of the home-improvement market.