Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide alarm, Google Nest, Palo Alto, California, USA

Roger Mason loves new technology. His wife Isabelle does not. So when he brought home a Nest Protect: Smoke + Carbon Monoxide alarm, she was skeptical. And when he got an alert on his phone from Nest Protect that there was smoke in her home, she was dubious. There was nobody home but the dogs - what could be on fire. Just in case, she changed her plans and came back home to find a box of granola bars and Goldfish crackers on fire in the kitchen.

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Babysitting is hard. You have to keep track of, like, children? Who are doing stuff in their rooms? And I can’t be in, like, all the rooms. That’s why the Nest Protect: Smoke + Carbon Monoxide alarm really comes in handy. Nest Protect speaks English - not just beeps - and tells me which room the danger is in. It even gives me a friendly Heads-Up before things get too bad, so I can go take care of smoke or carbon monoxide before it turns into an emergency. Because I’m, like, responsible for their safety or something? Ugh. Nest Protect also messages my phone when something goes wrong or if its batteries run low, which is good, because I am literally always looking at my phone.

How do you feel about your old smoke alarm? Tell us in the comments.

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It’s time to expect more from your smoke alarm.

The new Nest Protect has been redesigned from the inside out. It has an industrial-grade smoke sensor, tests itself automatically, and lasts up to a decade. It’s also the first alarm you can hush from your phone. And just like the original Nest Protect, it tells you what’s wrong and can even alert your phone.

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Nest's second-gen Protect smoke and carbon monoxide detector makes it possible to silence alarms straight from your phone.

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