A tour of Google's many hardware projects

Google may have started its life as a search engine, but 17 years has seen the company steadily evolve into one that produces as many goods as it does services. It may not be running the factories itself in a lot of cases, but you can pick up more than a handful of products with the Google logo slapped on the chassis. Then there are the more outlandish devices, like self-driving cars and face-worn computers, that could alter the way we live our lives. Consider this a reminder of all the weird and wonderful things that the engineers in Mountain View spend their days working on.

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Nexus 7

In the days before you could pick up a six-pack of tablets for $250, you could expect to spend just under that figure for one reasonably mediocre Android slab. Then in 2012 Google teamed up with ASUS to create the Nexus 7, which we described as the "best $200 tablet that you can buy." The Nexus 7 would prove to be so popular that the second-generation device would hang around until early 2015, nearly two years after it launched. It’s gone now, as Google wanted to push people toward the 9-inch replacement. Still, this device pushed the bar far higher for every other company that had to follow it.

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