The Modular Cell Wears Many Jackets

By Nick Mokey
February 07, 2008

The modu phone will offer an array of snap-on accessories that literally change its form to match new functions.

In this age of the all-in-one smart phone that’s expected to do everything from playing music on a commute to finding a restaurant for dinner,  one Israeli company, modu, has taken a different approach to incorporating all those different functions into one device. The tiny modu phone will be the first to offer an array of snap-on accessories that will literally change its form to match function, what the company calls a modular design.

The separate phone enclosures will be known as modu jackets, and modu will also introduce a class of consumer electronics devices designed to mate with the phone, dubbed modu mates. The company claims it already has manufacturers on board to produce MP4 players, digital photo frames, cameras and DECT ...

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