Cellphones are unarguably the most essential accessory in today’s technology driven world. However, researchers are looking to take it a step forward and are working on a mobile phone that is able to assemble itself.
MIT scientists working at the institute’s Self-Assembly Lab have come up with a revolutionary new technology, with which a mobile can self-assemble itself, reported CNN.
The project which is in its early days is led by Skylar Tibbits, an architect and research scientist, at MIT's Self-Assembly Lab, with collaboration of artist and researcher Marcelo Coelho, according to Fast Company.
"This technology has the potential to completely change the product design landscape. On one extreme, it will allow large companies to rapidly generate many versions of a product and iterate based on customer feedback," said Coelho.
"On the other, it will allow small design studios to easily scale their production from a few units to thousands with little overhead, closing the loop on the democratization of design started by crowd-funding," he added.
Now how the technology works? Six separate pieces of a mobile phone are placed in a tumbler, which shakes the pieces very quickly, reported Hackreads, until the elements click into place with magnets, creating phone.
The process works similar to the magnetic power that attracts objects to itself. Reports added that the pieces are designed like a puzzle, and would only match with certain other parts, in order to make a mobile.
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