one of the goals of the project is to be able to iterate designs and build on designs. This motivates google paying for the shuttle runs and generating a number of chips for each design. Their stated goal is that if someone is interested and since you can't easily recreate a project like you can with software or even a PCB design, there should be devices available to give away. The details will be left to the project owners but I suspect they'll send you some for free or cost of shipping

That would be fantastic, I hope so. Thanks for your help!