Product Design Shit That Breaks: Don’t Buy a FitBit Thinking about buying a FitBit? Our suggestion: don't. Online reviews are full of complaints about devices that die, fast. And the FitBit Flex is among the least repairable things we've… December 19, 2014 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Consumer Rights Copyright Is Screwing Over Blind People and Taking Their Right to Read For more than a decade, the visually-impaired have been locked in an excruciatingly slow and circuitous battle against US copyright laws. And it’s left the visually-impaired with few options but… December 18, 2014 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
E-Waste UrJar Uses E-waste to Light Up the World What does it take to turn the lights on in poverty-stricken, rural communities? According to a group of researchers from IBM, the solution just might be e-waste. And they’re proving… December 17, 2014 by Julia Bluff
Gadgets Amazon Echo Teardown: Two Soup Cans’ Worth of Good Fun It lives in your home. It's always listening. It's the Amazon Echo, a voice-controlled smart speaker, and it's the closest device yet to the computer in Star Trek. The Echo's… December 16, 2014 by Andrew Goldheart
Repair Stories A Tale of Two iPod Repairs My husband and I have a set of two classic iPods, and they've come along on grueling runs, incredible hikes, and long road trips for almost six years. But when… December 9, 2014 by Kelly Boss
Consumer Rights Why Cellphone Unlocking Could Soon Be Illegal Once Again In August, President Obama signed the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, a law ensuring that US companies and consumers have the right to unlock their own cellphones. Now,… December 9, 2014 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Legislation Copyright Law Is Being Rewritten Right Now, and You Can Help Strap in, folks—because we’re about to talk copyright law. I’m aware that as soon as I string the words “copyright” and “law” together, eyes start to glaze over. I get… December 9, 2014 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
E-Waste Our Stuff Is Getting Harder to Recycle—and That’s a Huge Problem Christmas is the high-water mark of new stuff—and a lot of that new stuff is going to be electronic. As Wired’s Christina Bonnington pointed out yesterday, the mounting influx of… December 9, 2014 by Julia Bluff
Tools Gifts for Every Fixer on Your List The air is crisp, the evergreen bedecked, and we’re all blissfully shoveling sweets into our mouths unchecked. It’s Christmas time! But we know the holiday season can also be the… December 8, 2014 by Julia Bluff
How Tech Works The Skinny on Thermal Paste We recently set out on a journey to shed some light on basic repair skills with a series of videos on iFixit’s Youtube channel. Our first video centered on stripped… December 4, 2014 by Gwendolyn Gay
