Google X, a Mystery! Or Geniuses at Work?

Heard of Google X? It’s not surprising if you haven’t because that’s how they intended it to be. Google X’s very existence was revealed only yesterday by the New York Times. It is nothing more than a playground where the engineers toy with ideas on the next generation Google’s projects.

Forget the public not being aware; not even many of Google’s own employees know about this playground. The lab is kept so secretive that some consider it to be of a covert nature of the department to the CIA.

Reportedly, Google has two teams split between its Mountain View campus and the top-secret location and these folks are apparently burning the midnight oil trying out over a “100 shoot-for-the-stars ideas”.

Glimpses of these ideas in shape can be seen in the driverless car introduced at a TED conference in Long Beach early this year and the next generation connected devices that include smart fridges, light bulbs and plant pots.

Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin is apparently close with the covert team. Though this secret doings are miles away from Google’s search business, the success of the company in the core area provides them with handful of funds to accommodate such work.

Moreover, this match with the company’s character of the ’20 percent time’; that is, for one day a week, all the staff are allowed time to work on their own personal projects. That has helped the company to come up with the Reader and Gmail.

The secret team, it seems, involves many hands from major technological companies and universities like Microsoft, Nokia Labs, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, New York University, and Stanford. Even Johnny Chung Lee, who was one of the minds behind Kinect, supposedly works here too along with other robotic experts of the country.

It looks like Google is plowing ahead with full steam silently. I guess we can hear a lot more from the search giant in the coming months.