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one of the top five I'm your host I as akhtar google i/o Google's developer conferences produced some amazing stuff over the years today we're taking a look at the top five memorable reveals at Google i/o they made us take note number five is the introduction of Google TV in the year 2010 it was a smart TV platform that would run on a number of set-top boxes including the logitech revue the idea was to bring the reel web to your TV since this was google we all dreamed of something that could search to find the best video to watch at any given time unfortunately major providers like Hulu and ABC blocked the google TV browser Google TV didn't quite make it but Google eventually announced android TV in 2014 as another attempt to be your living room buddy android has gone through a lot of revisions at one point it was a version for phones and another for tablets in 2011 google announced ice cream sandwich would change all of that by combining the phone version of Android called gingerbread and honeycomb which land on tablets and Google TV this change would make it easier for app developers to make one app that ran on whatever device and it also brought some nice tablet only features two phones like we sizeable widgets and better multitasking abilities who could forget this thing it's the Nexus Q and it made its debut in 2012 it's more memorable because most of us reacted to it like a confused dog the head tilt it attached the cue to your home theater system instream google only services to it from an android phone oh and it costs 299 dollars reaction to the Nexus Q was so negative that Google pretty much axed the device instead of releasing it to the masses and 2013 Google effectively replaced the queue with the chromecast which cost a whopping $35 and supported tons of apps including non google services number two is the introduction of the google nexus 7 in 2012 it was google's first tablet and at the time android tablets just couldn't compete with Apple's iPad until this thing hit there were rumors of a Google tablet swirling for months it's official introduction by Hugo Barra at i/o showed Google was behind Android on tablets it started at 199 so way cheaper than the Q and would be a great way to watch content from the google play store at number one is the introduction of project butter no not really but 2012's Google i/o is full of memorable moments including number one because of Project Glass as a demo of Google's wearable the company had skydivers on a live Google hangout who then proceeded to jump out of the plane while live-streaming the skydivers land out of the copper center they've got on bikes and rode in to meet sergey brin on stage come on skydivers blast didn't pan out but what an introduction questions comments any kind of feedback at all hit me up on Twitter on that is for more top 5s like this visit top 5 cnet com thank you for watching