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HERE IS THE LIST OF MOST INNOVATIVE PROJECTS BY GOOGLE.

Google went through a massive reorganization October 2015 when Alphabet became its parent company.

Projects that weren't part of Google's core business (Google search engine and Android) were spun out into separate Alphabet companies with their own CEO. All of these "moonshot" projects cover everything from making smarter homes to creating robots that can work alongside humans.

But even Google proper, which now falls under Alphabet, still has oversight over some of these futuristic projects.

It can be a lot to keep track of, so we compiled the 20 most ambitious moonshot projects under Alphabet and what they hope to accomplish:

google fiber


Google Fiber provides super high-speed internet and more than 150 TV channels. You can record up to eight show at once on the Google Fiber DVR, and control the TV using an app on an Android or iOS device
Google Fiber, which provides an internet connection that's up to 1,000 megabits per second, is one of the fastest U.S. internet providers (along with Verizon FiOS)


It's currently only available in: Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Kansas City, Nashville, Raleigh-Durham, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, and Provo, Utah. But it has plans to expand to cities like Tampa and Portland

NEST


Nest shows Alphabet's plan to get involved in smart home technology.

Most people know Nest from its smart thermostat, which will learn owners' behaviors and adjust the temperature according to their preference and to safe money. You can also control the thermostat remotely via its app.

But Nest makes other smart home products as well, like a smart fire detector and a smart home security camera.

Nest, which was acquired for $3.2 billion in 2014, is its own company under Alphabet

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES 

Google is one of the forerunners in the driverless car race.
As of the end of November 2015, Google's driverless cars had racked up more than 1.3 million miles in autonomous mode, according to a Google report filed with the Department of Motor Vehicles.

A December report released by Juniper Research, a mobile and digital market research firm, declared Google was most likely to bring driverless cars to consumers first. This makes sense, considering Google’s self-driving car software has gained more than 90 years worth of collective driving experience

Smart contact lenses

Alphabet is pursuing smart contact lenses that are solar powered and collect biological data about the wearer. Sensors embedded in the contacts could collect information like body temperature and blood-alcohol content.The tech giant also announced in 2014 that it was pursuing contact lenses that would use tiny glucose sensors to measure sugar levels in your tears.

Internet-beaming hot air balloons

Project Loon is Alphabet's desire to bring internet to two-thirds of the world's population using internet-beaming hot air balloons.
The project has been in the works since 2011, about two years before it was unveiled to the public. The solar powered balloons fly at high altitudes to provide broadband to areas without internet access.


A pill that can detect cancer cells

The tech giant is designing tiny magnetic particles that can look for signs of cancer and other diseases in the human body, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The company is also working on a wearable that would serve as a monitoring tool by using a magnet to count the particles. The project is at least another four years away from being ready for prime-time.

Curing death 

The tech giant has taken on the ambitious project of extending the average lifespan.The research being done has been kept fairly hush, but we know researchers are looking at things like genes that correlate to longer lifespans in certain people. The project is run by Calico, a company under Alphabet, that stands for California Life Company

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