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Dialing the thermostat into the digital age

Sooner or later, just about everything goes digital. The book. The TV. The phone.

But one of the world’s most commonplace gadgets has been stuck in time for 40 years: the humble thermostat. There’s probably one on your wall right now, beige and boring-and probably wasting money.

"Today, only 10 percent of thermostats, a quarter billion thermostats in the U.S., are actually programmed to saving energy," said Silicon Valley inventor Tony Fadell. "That’s because they’ve been too confusing, too cumbersome to program."

Fadell is trying to change all that, but you’re probably more familiar with his earlier pet project: designing the iPod.

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