Iain Gellatly is an engineer and inventor by training. He has an eye and passion for the look, quality and inventive style of the Victorian era. Iain has a few specialists to help him, but is responsible for making things right for every customer.
All Retro Gear Laboratory products are conceived, designed and hand-built in the USA.
Retro Gear got started as a custom design studio looking at new and unique ways to merge the look, feel and quality of old school products and steampunk design with modern microprocessor, networking and sensor technologies. Make beautiful things to enjoy that also work and perform useful functions.
Every invention starts with days of intense brain storming and idea sharing, followed by weeks of research, incorporating new technologies, running lots and lots of experiments, making lots of mistakes, reworking designs and more until people say "wow, that's so cool".
Retro Gear Laboratories embraces open source computing and the collaborative, creative spirit of the Maker Movement. Sharing is good. Products are developed using open source hardware, graphic tools and programming environments.
The finish products are totally unique, functional and a pleasure to own and interact with. True conversation pieces. We love the feedback we get, along with all the great ideas for future products. Keep them coming.
