Google’s Project Ara is heralded in sweaty-palmed blog posts as the future of mobile computing — a modular smartphone that adapts to suit your every need. But at the moment, the future of smartphones is struggling to boot up consistently. So in the meantime, this Kickstarter wants to take Ara’s promise of a modular smartphone, put it in case form, and bring it to the masses.
If you’re not familiar with Project Ara, the idea is this: the base of the phone is an ‘endoskeleton’ — basically a smartphone-sized motherboard — with rectangular slots for you to add a processor, touchscreen, thumbprint scanner, whatever.
