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  • MIT is exploring phones that put themselves together

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    Devindra Hardawar
    Devindra Hardawar
    08.22.2016

    We've seen a tiny chair that can assemble itself from MIT, but now the lab responsible for that adorable experiment has their eye on a much more complicated project: self-assembling cellphones. Specifically, MIT's Self-Assembly Lab is looking at how putting together a handful of components in a rotating tumbler could come together as a complete cellphone, Fast Company reports. It's a hard concept to grasp in words, so check out a video of the concept in action below.