The Learning Thermostat. iPod 'Godfather' Tony Fadell Unveils His New Project: Nest, The iPhone Of Thermostats. Having helped design two of the most elegant electronics in history, the iPhone and iPod, Apple alumnus Tony Fadell is now setting his sights on the least sexy device in our homes: the thermostat.
With funding from Google Ventures, among other investors, and input from Al Gore, an adviser, Fadell has created a new breed of thermostat that combines the body of a can of tuna with the brain of an iPhone. "These are really cellphones," Fadell said of his thermostats. "These have almost all the capabilities of the iPhone. " If Apple designed a thermostat, it might look like Nest, the new heating and cooling system created by Fadell's startup of the same name. The silver thermostat is round and squat, slightly wider than a soda can, with a black screen that glows red or blue when cooling or heating. Apple. iOS 5 features: Split keyboard for iPad. Laying the iPad flat in landscape orientation makes typing on its touchscreen relatively easy once you get used to it, but what about typing when you're holding it in your hands?
If you've got hands like a basketball player, thumb-typing on the iPad in portrait orientation probably hasn't been a problem for you so far. For the rest of us, we were hoping for a better solution. In iOS 5, that solution is here: Apple calls it the split keyboard, and it's pretty awesome.