Google buys design firm to help make its secret projects look less weird

Google buys design firm to help make its secret projects look less weird   Some of Google's coolest projects are also its ugliest products - Google Glass, for example, or even Google's self-driving cars.Thankfully the next version of Glass could look like normal glasses, California now requires Google's cars to have pedals and steering wheels - and Google has purchased its very own design firm, Gecko Designs.Gecko has worked on tech ranging from the FitBit Ultra to the Sonos Zone Player, so it clearly knows what it's doing.But its work with Google will be a lot more secretive, as the designers at Gecko will go straight to the Google X research labs. Read more >