
EDITOR'S NOTE: Updated to include additional comment from GE on compatibility with third-party smart home platforms. GE wants to save us from the summer heat with a pair of new, app-enabled window air conditioners -- the largest and most powerful connected models on the market, according to GE. Stick one in your window and download GE's app, and you'll be able to control it from afar on your phone -- handy when you want to start cooling things down before getting home. The two models (AED10AV and AEC12AV) sell for $350 and $440, and boast 10,000 and 12,500 BTUs of cooling power, respectively. That's a step up from Frigidaire's smart window air conditioner, which clocks in with 8,000 BTUs and sells for $430. And, though it's much more plain-looking, it's also an upgrade from the Quirky Aros, a $300, 8,000-BTU smart AC unit that GE helped produce back in 2014. That model was a hot seller when it first debuted, although Quirky, a crowdsourced invention startup, has since filed for bankruptcy.