E-Waste The Serious Downside to Slim Technology Design Slim electronics might look great, but there's a major problem with their design: battery accessibility. The growing trend in electronics is a seamless device that keeps the owner from replacing… April 5, 2013 by
Teardowns Orange Teardown: Behind the Peel Monday morning. The iFixit teardown room is tense and silent. The scent of citrus hangs in the air. And the Orange is preparing to meet its fate—an iFixit teardown to… April 1, 2013 by
Activism The Joy of Old Tech What’s the oldest piece of technology that you own? That’s the question radio host Nora Young asked listeners on the CBC program Spark. Callers waxed poetic about everything from old… March 29, 2013 by Julia Bluff
Teardowns HTC One Teardown The HTC One landed in our hands and was quickly deemed teardown-worthy. So we cleared the operating table, sharpened our spudgers... and that's where the excitement stopped. It turns out… March 28, 2013 by Miro Djuric
Teardowns BlackBerry Z10 Teardown BlackBerry Z10 Teardown, repairable cell phone, BlackBerry teardown, cell phone with removable battery, Synaptics Clearpad 3203 Capacitive Touchscreen Controller. Despite its poor reception among critics, the BlackBerry Z10 is proof… March 25, 2013 by Miro Djuric
Repair Stories The Wright Way: Repair Teaches Engineering Considered the first airplane, the Wright Flyer III—built by Orville and Wilbur Wright—was a huge step towards modern flight. Of course, the Wright brothers were not the only ones to… March 21, 2013 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit
Consumer Rights The Supreme Court Says It’s Okay to Re-Sell Your Old Stuff On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld your right to resell. The case, Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, related to Supap Kirtsaeng, who bought cheap, lawfully made textbooks in… March 20, 2013 by Julia Bluff
Consumer Rights Forget the Cellphone Fight—We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own Who owns our stuff? The answer used to be obvious. Now, with electronics integrated into just about everything, the answer has changed. We really don’t own our stuff anymore (at… March 19, 2013 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Legislation Congress’s Lackluster Cell Phone Unlocking Legislation It’s been a little over a week since the White House threw its support behind the effort to legalize unlocking. Almost immediately, cell phone unlocking became a hot button political… March 14, 2013 by Julia Bluff
Gadgets Pebble Teardown We just got our hands on the Pebble (did you notice the subtle watch pun there?), and we couldn't be more excited. Touted by developers as the "first watch built… March 13, 2013 by Andrew Goldheart
