Why did Facebook just buy this modular gadget company?

Facebook just scooped up a new company, one that could very well help it develop products - including of the kind with swappable parts - at a pace unseen anywhere else. Nascent Objects, described by Recode as a small startup that specializes in modular gadgets, developed what it claims is the "world's first modular consumer electronics platform.""By combining hardware design, circuitry, 3D printing and modular electronics, our technology allows developers to go from concept to product in just we