Nest Unboxing

The nest is a $249 self learning thermostat. Apparently, it promises to look very cool on your wall while saving you money in energy costs. It has some unspecified learning algorithms that will adapt to your lifestyle by changing the programming based on past usage. Actually, all that is great and all but I was sold just with the circular OLED display.

Next thing you know my Nest Self Learning Thermostat finally came and I proceeded to rip it open and take pics of the unboxing:

Sufficiently nice packaging.

 Cardboard box appears to be saying they are environmentally friendly.

 The first sight of the Nest.

 Plastic cover removed.

 The instruction manual appears to be slightly sloppy. The clear plastic was not secured and just flopped open when I took it out of the box. It instruction manual packaging looks very familiar with *certain* other products.

 At first I thought the leveling tube was just a gimmick but after some thought, I realized that yes you really do need it. Why? Because there aren't any flat surface on the outside for you to make the unit perfectly level. I suppose you can try to go off of one of the straight edges inside the circle but that will be a bit clumsy.

 For some reason, I really like the color and just the overall shape of the back panel. No idea if there are any real electronics inside but the grey buttons are spring loaded.

 Now this mini screw driver has got to be a bit of a gimmick. The large circular handle was very necessary for my installation because it provided the torque for me to remove the original screws.

 Seen here with one of the bits attached.

As I look at the back of the main unit, I see the screws in the unit that's just asking for it to be torn apart. Perhaps I will do this at a later time since I want to at least use the unit for a while before I accidentally short it out while it is taken apart.

When I first learned of the nest, they were selling the first round of Nest productions but I didn't jump at it due to the high cost. Since you can imagine, you can get a perfectly good one week touchscreen thermostat from Honeywell for around $68. Well, if you get one of those, it'll look pretty standard in any home but who wants to do that?