Motorola has unveiled Project Ara, an open-source initiative for modular smartphones with the goal to "do for hardware what the Android platform has done for software." The company plans to create an ecosystem that can support third-party hardware development for individual phone components — in other words, you could upgrade your phone's processor, display, and more by shopping at different vendors.

Is is possible to create a radically different society? One where material possessions are unnecessary, where buildings are created in factories, where mundane jobs are automated?

Spyker, renowned in the Aughts for their unique sense of Netherlandian zaniness, has been treading the comeback trail this year after founder and CEO Victor Muller's ill-fated adventure in Saab ownership.