Right to Repair Using Copyright to Keep Repair Manuals Secret Undermines Circular Economy Every day, there are fewer manufacturer repair manuals left on the web. Only a handful of electronics producers, including Dell, HP, and Lenovo, voluntarily release service manuals to the public… December 20, 2013 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Gadgets Steam Machine Teardown By some stroke of godlike luck, we managed to acquire a Steam Machine—one of only 300 beta kits that Valve released into the wild. The Steam Machine is essentially a… December 19, 2013 by Julia Bluff
Legislation A Win for Consumers on Cellphone Unlocking The Federal Communication Commission just came to an agreement with US wireless carriers that will make it easier for consumers to unlock their mobile devices. The agreement comes almost 12… December 16, 2013 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Gadgets Nest Protect Teardown A few times per year a device comes along that's not a fancy-schmancy tablet or phone, but still intriguing enough to warrant a teardown. Like the Nest Protect, a $130… December 10, 2013 by Miro Djuric
Events A Black Friday Tradition: Out with the New, In with the Old It was Black Friday. A day of crowds. A day of clearances. A day of consumerism. But I was not in a line. And I would not be fighting through… December 9, 2013 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Activism Crowdfund the Effort to Jailbreak iOS7: The Device Freedom Prize It’s been nearly three months since Apple released iOS 7 to the public, and a jailbreak still isn’t available. Well, accessibility advocate Chris Maury just sweetened the pot a little… December 5, 2013 by Julia Bluff
Repair Stories Teddy Bear Repair In college, I was a nanny. The six children I watched had their own stuffed best friends: a bear, a bunny, a dinosaur, a kitty, an elephant, and (another) bear,… November 27, 2013 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit
iFixit Mending the World With Patagonia—One Seam at a Time The more people that repair their garments, the bigger the impact will be. Fixing must become a global initiative. Everyone should have the resources to repair every thing—including clothing. That’s… November 26, 2013 by Julia Bluff
Repair Guides 5 Sewing Repairs Everyone Needs to Know Some things are funny. A busted seam at a wedding is not. Here at iFixit we are all about being prepared. We’ve got a thirsty bag for your aquaphilic phone,… November 25, 2013 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit
Gadgets Xbox One Kinect Teardown Hot on the coattails of yesterday's Xbox One comes America's favorite surveillance system — the second-generation Kinect! Good news, tin-hat wearers: the Kinect *does not* have any NSA-grade hardware inside. Instead, we found tons… November 22, 2013 by Cait Emma Smith
