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  • These Self-Assembling Phones Are Refreshingly Low Tech

    These Self-Assembling Phones Are Refreshingly Low Tech

    MIT’s self-assembly lab has created mobile phones that build themselves, in a manner of speaking. There’s no fancy nano- or bio- technology involved, nothing theoretical or suggestive of a near-future Singularity. It’s devilishly simple, because the whole project boils down to throwing phone parts into a rock tumbler.