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Colin McDonald
Essentially born with a camera in hand, Colin West McDonald has been passionately creating video all his life. A native of Columbus, Ohio, Colin founded his own production company, Stoker Motion Pictures, and recently wrote and directed his first feature film. Colin handled photography and video production for CNET's Appliance Reviews team.
Designed to react to people's actual behavior and not algorithms, the Eversense adjusts a home's heating or cooling based on when the last person leaves and the first person comes home.
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Eversense.
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Eversense.
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Eversense.
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Eversense.
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Eversense works on iOS and Android.
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Asked why someone would choose the Eversense over Nest, Eversense points out that while Nest is meant to adjust to people's regular patterns, life isn't actually all that regular.
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The Eversense is $349.
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The system is designed to turn off heat or air conditioning when the last person in a household has left for the day -- as determined by the last mobile phone leaving -- and so that the first person to come home returns to "an ideal environment."
