Motorola Will Use 3D Printing For Its Customizable Smartphones

Motorola is actually making its vision of building smartphones like Lego kits a reality. And 3D printing is going to be part of it.

Motorola’s “Project Ara” is an initiative to create customizable hardware for smartphones where consumers can pick and choose what kind of capabilities they want and “build” their own devices with modular, replaceable components. To achieve this end, Motorola has entered into an exclusive partnership with 3D Systems to use 3D printing to make the hardware that will power these devices.