The Google TV project has seen modest success (and that's putting it nicely), but nowhere near the level of interest of Apple's set-top box which holds more than half the world's market for streaming boxes.
People who are serious about software make their own hardware, Alan Kay once famously said. In this regard, Google is just as eager to become a hardware maker as Apple is adamant to double-down on online services.
That being said, it's no surprise Google is rethinking its approach to the living room. Earlier this week we were offered a glimpse of Google's renewed living room effort as the search giant announced a $35 TV dongle called the Chromecast, alongside the second-gen Nexus 7 tablet.
That's just the beginning, though. The Wall Street Journal now reports that Google is working on its own set-top box hardware with built-in motion recognition technology akin to Microsoft's Kinect...
