When you put Arduino and the Internet of Things in a nice black suitcase together with some extra break-out goodies, what you get is the perfect geek Christmas gift.
Over the past months Google has been busy downsizing its Android operating system (OS) to make it suitable for the Internet of Things (IoT). The new OS, Brillo, is intended to run on small connected embedded devices that will be all over the place in the next few years (if we may believe the experts). An OS without a hardware platform to run on is not worth a lot but luckily Intel and Imagination have closed that gap.