Google on Friday announced that it has acquired Gecko Design, a mechanical engineering and product design company, to help with its research and innovation wing Google X. The company possibly wanting to revamp its much lacking hardware and design fronts might have taken this decision given that Gecko has the much needed experience in similar fields.
The company’s president, Jacques Gagne will join Google X along with four other colleagues from Gecko. Though no price of the acquisition was disclosed Mr.Gagne did say a few words,
“We’re a piece that Google X doesn’t necessarily have. People come to Gecko because they don’t know how to turn ideas into real products, especially when it’s something that hasn’t been done before. That’s what attracted Google X.”
Founded in 1996, Gecko has lent its hand to many successful products like the Fitbit and partnered big names like Dell and Hewlett-Packard. The much needed refinement in design aspects of Google’s famed products like Glass, might actually take form with Gecko in action.
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