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In fairness, both the Nest and the Lyric look (and work!) like a digital version of Honeywell's 1950's-era thermostat: http://lyric.honeywell.com/Images/thermos
by danudey 12y ago
In fairness, both the Nest and the Lyric look (and work!) like a digital version of Honeywell's 1950's-era thermostat: http://lyric.honeywell.com/Images/thermostats_slides/1950_thermo.png http://lyric.honeywell.com/Images/thermostats_slides/1950_th...
- blacksmith_tb 12y agoSo, round thermostat as skeuomorph. I wonder when we'll see a simpler on-the-wall thermostat that still exposes fancy controls and visualizations on a smartphone - seems pointless to me to have essentially the guts of a smartphone along with a touchscreen bolted to my wall when I already have one in my pocket...