Product Design Smart Fridges Are Still a Dumb Idea Last week, Samsung hyped its new smart fridge at the Consumer Electronic Show—and, predictably, found the Internet decidedly un-hyped. The “Family Hub” fridge comes equipped with a 21.5-inch touch screen… January 7, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Fixers These High Schoolers Are Getting Resourceful with Their Broken Phones In New York City, a student at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School stuck his head through the doorframe and gave Jeannie Crowley an inquisitive look. “I heard you guys are… January 5, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Site News iFixit 2015: Year in Review Before we go crashing into January (and the future!), we decided to take some time to look back at all iFixit and our amazing community got up to in 2015.… December 31, 2015 by Taylor Whitney
Product Design Broken Is a State of Mind, Researchers Say Why don’t people fix things? Some UK design researchers have a reasonable, but not shocking, answer: Repair means we have to work for our stuff, when we expect our stuff… December 23, 2015 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Product Design Repairman Takes Keurig to Task over Unfixable Machines Last year, the brew barons incited the wrath of java drinkers everywhere when they integrated DRM into their coffee machines—an attempt to stop customers from using third-party coffee pods. Keurig… December 21, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Product Design This Dumb Smart Fridge Shows Why the Internet of Things Will Break For over a year, owners of a Samsung smart fridge have been unable to use their fridge’s pre-installed Google Calendar app, proving what we all suspected: the Internet of Things… December 17, 2015 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Teardowns Apple Smart Battery Case Gets Torn Apart We've seen a lot of unprecedented Apple products this year—a smartwatch, an extra large iPad, even an iPad stylus and keyboard. So it shouldn't really surprise us that Apple released… December 10, 2015 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Fixers Introducing Kids to Repair: It’s Easier Than You Think You cringe as you hear it—the horrendous crack as the iPad slips from a pint-sized hand and falls to the floor. The children gasp; the lamentations begin. The iPad is… December 9, 2015 by Kelsea Weber - iFixit
How To How to Really Build a Budget Bike Repair Toolkit I’ve come across lots of articles that claim to tell you how to build a cycling toolkit for cheap. Somehow the word “cheap” stops recurring in the long list of… December 7, 2015 by Bek Maples
Gadgets We Took Apart a Steam Controller Valve traditionally operates in the realm of PC gaming—the last true bastion of upgradability and modularity—and it looks like this attitude carried over to this smaller package. A screwdriver, prying… December 2, 2015 by Evan Noronha
