Part corporate meeting telepresence, part stand-alone film studio with baked in special effects, the system is backed by Kansas City, one of the first chosen for Google's Fiber project.
The new gigabit Google Fiber Internet and TV service ties together much of what Google's been working on for the past two years and charts a course for its content-creating, cable-cutting future.
While you were sleeping, innovation was putting on a jaunty little cap to wear with its oil-colored capelet, eschewing anything nerdlike such as black T-shirts, and leaving home without its British citizenship.