As Rachel alluded to in her Inside 3DP NYC review, Project Ara, a collaborative megaproject between Google and 3D Systems, has been making progress. The modular smart phone would be the first of its kind, allowing users to completely customize their device’s hardware via blocks embedded with electronic components. 3D Systems will play an essential role in scaling up additive manufacturing technology to mass produce the parts of the phone. 3DS’ CEO, Avi (I will limit all words to three letters from now on) played the following video during his keynote at Inside 3D Printing in NYC last week, to get the crowd hyped up about the collaborators’ modular smart device:
The smart device is intended to launch sometime next year, but there’s still a lot of work to be done.…
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