Google accelerates house WiFi with shapely new Nest WiFi Professional router

Rounder, hotter, and extra like a chunk of sculpture, the brand new Google Nest WiFi Professional represents a distinct path for this important piece of house {hardware}. 

We spoke to Isabelle Olsson, senior design director for the Google Nest and Wearables portfolio, and Ivy Ross, the corporate’s vice chairman of Design for {Hardware}, about Nest WiFi Professional and what it means for the corporate’s {hardware} division.

Ivy Ross: ‘It virtually seems to be like a glass vase’

Google has made its personal routers for a number of years now, including performance and ease to an inescapable component of home infrastructure. Its latest roll-out upgrades the inner chipset to take account of WiFi 6E, the newest customary that’s practically thrice as quick because the earlier WiFi 6, profiting from a brand new band on the spectrum (6 GHz, as a substitute of the acquainted 2.5 or 5 GHz) to take us ever-closer to a world with out Ethernet (wired) connections. 

There are additionally added safety measures, with authentication between units made extra sturdy and fewer reliant on old school, hackable passwords.

‘A tool like this has to work properly and be out within the open,’ says Olson. ‘That’s why we now have a spread of colors so it could actually match into your private home.’ 

The end, too, can be a step away from the mushy matt surfaces which have outlined the previous few years of home tech. ‘Shiny is new for us,’ says Ross. ‘It virtually seems to be like a glass vase.’

The seamless, mushy form of the Google Nest WiFi Professional is explicitly designed to fit into any house, whereas nonetheless referencing the shape language of Google’s earlier {hardware} units. ‘We’ve got a room with all our earlier merchandise,’ Ross admits. ‘It helps present the evolution of the know-how.’ 

The brand new router additionally faucets into the colourways launched within the current drop of Google Pixel merchandise; it’s out there in Fog, Snow, Linen and Lemongrass finishes.

Nest Wifi Professional incorporates 60 per cent recycled materials by weight, together with massive quantities of the plastic and aluminium used within the development.