Something for the windfall

I'm going to guess there's some LiDAR needed here.... but this could also be a cool way to spend your windfall.

Google-Levi's Wearable

They can get a cool, huge display on it. 

Omni-touch already used PicoP and was a reliable demo. With Microvisions new display engine, something like six cubic centimeters gets a great display on a jacket.

I'm sure washing it is going to be a problem, but I like where they're going.

PCWorld
Christian Science Monitor

"At first, we wanted to put a display on it, the bigger the better," said Ivan Poupyrev, technical program lead at Google’s Advanced Technology And Products (ATAP) group, during the SXSW panel. "But Paul said 'no, there can’t be blinks on the jacket, we don’t do that. Our customers are cool urban people and blinking on your jacket is uncool.' "  

Unlike Google Glass, which aimed to dazzle users with new augmented reality technology, the Jacquard commuter jacket doesn't have capabilities beyond those offered on the average smartphone. Its primary benefits, as touted in a promotional video, are the wearer's ability to swipe from one song to another and get map updates without having to pull out a cellphone or glance at a smart watch. 

YouTube Taking on Cable

The portable ecosystem just got a whole lot better.

A cloud DVR with unlimited storage? Sign me up.

Wired

GOOGLE JUST JOINED the “skinny bundle” TV war with YouTube TV, a paid subscription service that streams a slew of premium broadcast and cable networks to your mobile device, tablet, computer, and anything with Chromecast.

Just $35 a month gets you six accounts and access to live TV from more than 40 providers including the big broadcast networks, ESPN, regional sports networks and dozens of popular cable networks. Subscriptions include cloud DVR with unlimited storage, AI-powered search and personalization, and access to YouTube Red programming. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki calls it the evolution of television, and a bid to “give the younger generation the content that they love with the flexibility they expect.”

Waymo -- Payed Waymo than they should have

Disruptive technologies, end up - disrupted. 

The economy of new technologies is an interesting mix of incentives. 

Secrecy, pay, talent, prices, focus, patents, etc. are all in that mix of incentives.

That they paid these people so much money that they didn't feel like they wanted to work any more is interesting.

That some of those people started their enterprises is part of that mix of incentives.

CNBC  -- More at the source

The car project at Google-parent Alphabet paid some workers so much that they built a nest egg and ditched the company, according to a Bloomberg report. 

Some long-time staffers were paid so much that eventually they "didn't need the job security anymore," people familiar with the situation told Bloomberg in a report published Monday. The sometimes multimillion-dollar paychecks were part of an "unusual compensation system" that started in 2010 and included performance-based compensation, bonuses and equity, Bloomberg reported. 

Some even called the payouts "F-you money," Bloomberg reported. Google declined to comment on the report to CNBC.