Google wants to be everywhere in your home, not just hiding inside your thermostats and smoke alarms. That's why, as rumored, it's just announced Project Brillo, a super-slim operating system that's designed specifically for devices collectively known as the internet-of-things. If you're feeling a sense of deja vu, don't -- the company has already dipped a toe or two into this market before, with 2011's quietly-abandoned Android@Home project. As expected, Project Brillo is based on Android, but pared down enough to operate on a wide variety of day to day (and traditionally dumb) objects -- doorbells, baby cameras, ovens and so on.
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