Nest Disables Feature on Smoke Alarms
The high-tech home monitoring device company Nest Labs is disabling a feature on its smoke alarms due to the risk that owners could unintentionally turn off the device with the wave of a hand.
Nest was acquired this year by Google Inc. for $3.2 billion.
Nest developed technology, which it calls the Nest Wave, that allows owners to turn off the Nest Protect: Smoke + Carbon Monoxide alarm at a distance, among other things.
Founder and CEO Tony Fadell said on the company’s website, however, that a “unique combination of circumstances” could delay an alarm going off in the event of a real fire.
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