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The article makes it sound pretty darned keen — and it likely is — but there are a lot of interesting observations \/ critiques in the comment section that I'd want to see addressed (including the price-point-in-bulk).<\/div>\n

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Meet Nest’s Protect, a Smart Smoke Detector That’s Actually Exciting<\/a>
\n What home appliance do you hate the most? Odds are good it\u2019s the smoke detector–that incessantly chirping, totally inconsistent mess of beige plastic that we can only hope actually works when needed. That may be about to change: Today, Nest Labs unveiled Protect, a Wi-Fi connected alarm that lets you keep tabs on your home even when nothing’s on fire.\n <\/p>\n

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The article makes it sound pretty darned keen — and it likely is — but there are a lot of interesting observations \/ critiques in the comment section that I'd want to see addressed (including the price-point-in-bulk). Meet Nest’s Protect, a Smart Smoke Detector That’s Actually Exciting What home appliance do you hate the most? … Continue reading “Great smoke detector idea, but”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11656,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/25\/fire_4.html","url_meta":{"origin":39175,"position":0},"title":"Fire!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Jul-07 6:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting news video (being passed around inside the company) about kids and smoke detector alarms.\u00a0 Bottom line -- often kids don't notice the alarm going off and sleep right through...","rel":"","context":"In "Home Improvement"","block_context":{"text":"Home Improvement","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/home-improvement"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18447,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/08\/alarm-alarm.html","url_meta":{"origin":39175,"position":1},"title":"Alarm! 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