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 ...

One of the cool features Nest's smart smoke alarm, the Nest Protect, introduced was the ability for users to wave their hand to turn off a faulty smoke alarm. Turns out, it's not working so hot ...

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.

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 ...

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.