Google forked out $3.2 billion to acquire Nest, the hot home automation gadget that's making waves now. The company was founded by the guy who designed Apple's iPod. To think Apple could have gotten to this first, but they didn't.

In fact, Google has been scooping up all the gems as of late, much faster than Apple and a lot of other people.

Kim Bhasin of the Huffington Post just tweeted this list of "things Google has bought lately," which is from Wikipedia. From robots to traffic detection to gesture recognition, Skynet is somewhat complete already.