Project Ara: Google's new modular smartphone

Google held its first developer conference for Project Ara, it was developed by a small team within the company called ATAP staffed with ex DARPA engineers and some of the smartest minds at Google. Project Ara is a mission to make a modular smartphone. It should be the last phone you buy, because you would be able to change out everything from the camera to the display to the battery to the memory..., in order to have the type of phone you would want.

For Google and ATAP, the goal is to build a device that will make the smartphone accessible to the billions of people who can't afford other smartphones like the Galaxys, iPhones and other smartphones. But if Project Ara works, if modular smartphones are more than just a Lego-lover's dream, the project could change the industry forever. New types of manufacturing, new ways of buying and selling phones, and new ways for consumers to interact with their most personal and most intimate devices.The Project Ara is still being worked on, but the ATAP is showing what Ara might be.

Here are some pictures of what it looks like.