![]() CNET, the popular tech media website, recently gave the Nest Thermostat five out of five stars. The "new and improved" second-generation Nest has just been released in October 2012, less than a year after the first-generation Nest made its debut. This may help to explain the inspiration of its design that integrates a very sophisticated piece of technology with a seemingly intuitive and straightforward user interface.Īnother familiarly Apple-esque aspect of the Nest Thermostat is the way that it is being marketed. In fact, the Nest Thermostat's inception and creation is largely a result of two highly regarded former Apple employees. A company out of Palo Alto, California, simply called Nest, has developed the Nest Thermostat, a self-learning thermostat controlled through an app that can be loaded onto any iOS device, such as an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, and on the Android platform. ![]() ![]() Mainstream apps for navigation using GPS, illuminated magnification, and barcode reading solutions, just to name a few, are now common place.Ī number of accessible home thermostats created specifically for people who are blind or visually impaired already exist on today's market, including the Kelvin Voice Interactive Talking Thermostat, The Round Easy-To-See Thermostat, and the VIP3000 Talking Thermostat. Today, with the proliferation of smartphones and more than half a million apps available for download, accessible solutions such as this have very quickly become a reality. Only a few years ago, the prospect of pairing some mainstream products together that would allow a person who is blind or visually impaired to control the temperature of their home from virtually anywhere in the world using a smart phone would probably sound like little more than wishful thinking.
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