Right to Repair The Five Worst Repair Stories People Told the FTC A few weeks back, the Federal Trade Commission asked for input on Right to Repair issues before its mid-July workshop, Nixing the Fix. We offered up 35 pages of research.… July 3, 2019 by Kevin Purdy
How To Five Toilet Repairs You Can Totally Handle Yourself Drip, drip, drip. That’s the sound of a running toilet keeping you awake at night. You flush the toilet. You fiddle around the tank and push and pull on the… July 1, 2019 by Kristen Gismondi - iFixit
Tech News Jony Ive’s Fragmented Legacy: Unreliable, Unrepairable, Beautiful Gadgets “If you’ve looked at computers, they look like garbage,” Steve Jobs said to a group in Aspen, Colorado, at the 1983 International Design Conference. Jobs built the world’s wealthiest corporation… June 28, 2019 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
iFixit We Turned Our Teardown Wallpapers into iPhone Cases We’ve been taking apart iPhones for more than a decade, and we’ve learned a thing or two about the tiny parts inside your favorite smartphone. It’s cool to look at… June 28, 2019 by Olivia Webb
Tools Not Just for Electronics: Our Mahi Driver Kit Is a Household Screwdriver That Kicks Ass While all of our toolkits are great for electronics, our lesser-known Mahi driver kit includes larger bits that are perfect for simple repair jobs around the house. I keep this… June 26, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
Teardowns Thin Yet Repairable Devices: HP Proves They Exist In sports, in photography, in Fortnite, it’s that one great shot that keeps you coming back. Most of your time pursuing your passions, you wade through so much mediocrity, so… June 25, 2019 by Kevin Purdy
Gadgets This Robot Bank Incentivized Me to Save Money, and I Tore It Down The year was 1994. The occasion was my family’s Christmas gathering. I tore off the wrapping paper from a rather nondescript box from my grandma to reveal a mysterious product.… June 24, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
Scandal Whirlpool Says Millions of Its Dryers Could Catch Fire, Here’s How The UK government is urging appliance maker Whirlpool to recall as many as half a million clothes dryers due to a fire risk that was discovered in 2015. The issue… June 20, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
Tech News Apple Recalls Some 15-inch MacBook Pros for Overheating Batteries, Check Yours Now Apple announced today that a “limited number” of 15-inch MacBook Pros sold between 2015 and 2017 are affected by a battery overheating issue and may pose a fire risk. Apple… June 20, 2019 by Whitson Gordon
Tech News We Compiled a Non-US phone for Huawei—Let’s Hope They Don’t Build It The recent US ban on sales to Chinese technology giant Huawei could cost the company $30 billion in revenue, according to Huawei’s CEO. That’s a significant hit for a company… June 20, 2019 by Kevin Purdy
