So looks like google has set up the best sales campaign for its google assistant device "nest" - they sent it to us free (for subscribing to youtube music).
I am kind of a privacy enthusiast, for what is worth, so the device had been sitting out in the garage, unopened, for weeks. Recently, though, we needed something to play baby lullaby music without holding up the phone, so we finally pulled the nest out of the box. Raj told me the set up papers noted that the device only starts recording what you're saying when you preface it with "Hey Google..", and you can tweak what it has stored about you.
The good thing is, its kind of handy to have. We've only just used it to play music. Although miss Haana tries to have conversation with it. It doesn't go very far.
The other day Bobby boy was crying and after a few seconds i heard this shhhh shhh sound. I wondered what that was, and it was from the google nest. Looks like it started playing it in response to the crying, without being commanded to do so. Scary, creepy and in that instant, kind of handy. Am i sort of amused but the device? Certainly. Am i warming up to it? Nah, i wouldn't go that far! Is it still plugged in? Mmmm yes, yes it is. (Feeling a little bit like a fraud)!
