Update: On April 3, Nest Labs halted sales of the Nest Protect smoke and CO detector and deactivated the hush feature, called the Nest Wave, over concerns that it could be unintentionally deactivated.

Nest Labs is halting sales of its new Protect smoke detector after determining that one of its flagship features could accidentally delay its alarm from going off during a fire. The feature, Nest ...

Nest Labs–a startup recently bought by Google which brings high style and web smarts to mundane household devices–is recalling Nest Protect, a smoke and carbon monoxide detector, over concerns ...

The Nest Protect is a “smart” smoke and carbon monoxide alarm. It’s designed to sit unobtrusively on a wall or ceiling and constantly monitor your house for any sign of alarm.

But Nest isn’t designing the “iPhone of the Home”—that’s not quite it. Protect is an entirely new genre of device, which needs no touch-screen or traditional UI at all.

In a support thread dating all the way back to 2021, users have validly complained that there’s no support for the Nest Protect within the Google Home app. Google has mentioned from time to time ...