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Digging up hardware related scoops from the Chrome OS code is a Chrome Unboxed specialty these days, but I am giving it a try this morning. The Chromebook board Eve that our friends over at Chrome Unboxed has been tracking showed up in the code today with this commit log:

eve: Add Si114x ALS sensor

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Added Si114x light sensor to the motion sense struct and enabled it in

polling mode. Also added backward compatibility for the ALS to report

readings via ACPI.

Next stop? Google Si114x ALS sensor, and I get this:

Si114x Ultraviolet (UV) Index, Gesture, Proximity, and Ambient Light Sensor ICs along with a lot of technical information about how this sensor works.

An experimental flag enabling fingerprint support showed up on Chrome OS Canary channel the other day. It so happens that Eve is a Chromebook that is expected to come with a fingerprint scanner as well.

A Chromebook with fingerprint scanner support, a host of sensors like a phone or a tablet, and a touch screen. Are we on to something here? What do you all think?

Update: This is the same sensor used in Pixel C. Does that make you smile? (Thanks Gabriel Brangers for this input)