PBS Kids did a good job with this, in my opinion, with their green characters. [0] I think replacing the default yellow skin with green would be a good thing.
That said, the on-going work into representing all humans in emojis is wonderful, and I really admire the clever technical solutions like this handshake proposal.
I got the DS916+. If I were buying today, I'd consider the DS1517+ (which has a faster cpu, can be upgraded to 10GBit, and supports m.2 slots for flash cache).
These are the high end home/smb choices. You can go much cheaper and get 90% of the functionality from other synology models.
I predict that the name "KitKat" was selected not only for cross marketing purposes, but also to serve as a handy metaphor for the key enhancement to Android 4.4. I suspect Google has reengineered Android to allow for modular system-level updates, while leaving user-space modifications, (such as carrier and manufacturer-added software,) untouched, similar to how Canonical has stated Ubuntu Touch updates will work.
We've already seen Google take a more modular approach to adding Android enhancements via individual application updates to the Play Store, GMail, YouTube, etc. This has allowed users running older versions of Android to take advantage of more up-to-date software, despite the lack of manufacturer-provided updates. Given the degree to which the Play Store service can modify the OS in the current version of Android, it seems reasonable to suspect that these modular updates could be extended to include the kernel, system services, and low-level run times. Google may have decided that they will own and update key portions of the operating system, and leave their partners to focus on updates to their device-specific "enhancements."
This prediction is consistent with the tag line associated with Android 4.4 on the linked page: "It's our goal with Android KitKat to make an amazing Android experience available for everybody."
How to explain the value behind such a "behind-the-scenes" feature to the technologically illiterate masses? A KitKat is a modular candy bar. All the fingers are the same. You can swap out a single finger without fundamentally altering the integrity of the whole. Perhaps Eric Schmidt will explain it better on-stage.
That said, the on-going work into representing all humans in emojis is wonderful, and I really admire the clever technical solutions like this handshake proposal.
[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/76/PBS_Kid...