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New York Times has an interesting article on Google-X, a secret laboratory where Sergey Brin and other Google employees to tackle major projects that are not yet ready for prime time.

In a top-secret laboratory unique position Bay Area, where robots run free, the future is imagined. It 'a place where your refrigerator can be connected to the Internet, so that it can provide food, when they ran low. You could be a pot-mail social networks, what you're eating. The robot should go to the office, when you stay in your pajamas. And maybe you could lift the outer space.

Google X is where Google is working on the car without a driver and the New York Times reports that Google is considering the manufacture of automobiles in the United States. Many projects are related to Android @ Home, an initiative announced this year that attempts to make everyday objects intelligent. "We think of all the appliances in your home as a potential I / S of devices," said Joe Britt Google. Google is trying to build the "Web of Things" by connecting home accessories, portable objects to the Internet.

Most of the ideas discussed in the Google X involving robots. "The fleets of robots could help Google to gather information, to replace the human being that Google Maps street photography, say people with knowledge of Google X. robots born in the laboratory could be used for homes and offices, which could help with everyday tasks and allow people to work remotely. "

It is interesting to note that one of the projects Google X may be released at the end of the year, but it is not clear what it does. At the conference I / O, Google announced it will introduce "a light bulb connected to the Web that can communicate wirelessly with Android devices," so this may be the product will be released.

Google has always tried to solve the big problems, even though many people think they should focus on improving the quality of search results and ads. "Larry and Sergey founded Google because they wanted to help solve the problems really great technology," said Sebastian Thrun, robotics expert who invented the first self-driving car, and now works at Google.

Google may be the next X Xerox PARC, or may fail, but it is important to think big and take risks. "I feel like people do not work enough to influence things. People are really afraid of failure of things, so it is difficult to make an ambitious stuff. And then, do not understand the power of technological solutions to problems, in particular computers, "complained Larry Page, Steven album," In-Plex ".

Hopefully, MG Siegler is right when he says that "everything that happens within the Google X, I'm pretty sure it's filled to the brim with the kind of things that brought down Google love in the first place."