Nice to see the imp referenced in the summary but this thing will eat time and energy in a big way.
http://blog.dimitridiakopoulos.com/2014/09/10/hands-on-intel-edison/
Toooo expensive
I think there is a place though outside imp-land for makers who perhaps want to lower-level than imp can allow or not to touch the internet at all, but for them though I think the answer is something like an Arduino Yún than an Edison