Future Gadget Laboratory

The Future Gadget Lab is a pseudo-organization founded by Rintaro Okabe in the middle of March, 2010. It is located in Akihabara, in an apartment rented from Yuugo Tennouji above the Braun Tube Workshop.

Purpose
According to Okabe, the main objective of the Future Gadget Lab is the creation of the so-called "Future Gadgets", that are to be used to plunge the world into chaos. In actuality, however, the Future Gadget Lab does not have any particular objective, and simply acts as a gathering place for Rintaro Okabe and his group of friends. The Future Gadgets are just simple inventions with various inoffensive uses.

The "Round Table Conferences" are periodical events in which the members of the lab get together to discuss recent developments.

Members
The members of the Future Gadget Lab are referred to by the term "Lab Mem", an abbreviation of "Laboratory Member".

Badges
At the conclusion of Steins;Gate, Okabe commissions badges for the Lab Members and gives one to each of them, saving Suzuha's until later. 2010 represents the year the lab was founded and the letters on the badge represent the Lab Members surnames in the order they joined. These badges are identical to Itaru's badge which Suzuha brings from the future. However, that version has "✻" in place of the first letter of the Lab Members 5-7.


 * O kabe Rintaro
 * S hiina Mayuri
 * H ashida Itaru
 * M akise Kurisu
 * K iryu Moeka
 * U rushibara Luka
 * F aris NyanNyan
 * A mane Suzuha

Official website
As part of the promotional material for the Steins;Gate anime adaptation, a website for the Future Gadget Lab replicating the one seen in the visual novel was created, showcasing the Future Gadgets and Okabe's fantasies.

It is worth noting that while two versions of the website exist, one in English and one in Japanese, the English website is very poorly written and contains many grammatical errors—this is a reference to how none of the members of the lab at the time of the website's creation knew any language other than Japanese.