Android co-creator Andy Rubin launches $699 Essential smartphone with modular add-ons

Android co-creator Andy Rubin has finally debuted the much-anticipated Essential phone, a high-end modular Android device from a company that uses “21st century methods to build products for the way people want to live in the 21st century,” according to a statement issued by Rubin earlier this month. Rubin teased the Essential smartphone as far back as […]

Blokable plans to ship homes that are modular, stackable, and smart

When you work at Amazon, you learn about scaling your business in a hurry. Now, Aaron Holm, former Amazon product manager and burgeoning entrepreneur, wants to transform the housing market by scaling up manufactured housing all along the West Coast. His new venture is called Blokable, and with it Holm wants to offer shippable housing units […]

Tag Heuer’s latest smartwatch is modular, still very expensive

Enlarge (credit: YouTube/Tag Heuer) Swiss watch manufacturer Tag Heuer is following up its uber-expensive $ 1,500 smartwatch with an even more expensive wearable. Today, the company announced the Tag Heuer Connected Modular 45, an Android Wear smartwatch that comes in a range of materials and with a plethora of interchangeable parts that let customers to make it their own, all […]

Boeing plans to build 3D-printed modular satellites

Boeing is known for building huge, high-end satellites that cost roughly $ 150 million each, but that could change in the future. The aerospace corporation plans to adopt new production practices that involve the use of modular 3D-printed parts and far fewer workers than it’s used to, according to The Wall Street Journal. Its current […]