Google’s secretive ATAP lab is imagining the future of smart devices

The consumer-electronics research arm has been quiet for years — but it's also been busy. Its new mission? Make Google hardware as smart as Google software. In Fast Company, Harry McCracken takes a closer look into the company's Advanced Technology and Projects (or ATAP) division, a research team "just like DARPA, but in Silicon Valley," lead by Dan Kaufman, and designed to make the impossible, happen.