Legislation More States Introduce Right to Repair Legislation 2017 could be a very good year for repair. More US states than ever are proposing Right to Repair legislation this year. So far, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Nebraska, Kansas,… January 31, 2017 by Julia Bluff
Product Design When Smart Stuff Gets Stupid: A CES Tale Manufacturers are pushing the envelope to smarten up our products—whether those products need to be smart or not. Just because we can connect things to the Internet doesn’t mean we… January 20, 2017 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Consumer Rights The DMCA Strikes Back: How Copyright Law Could Cost You Your Job Over 3 million men and women work in America’s repair and maintenance industry. Maybe I don’t have a lot of faith in politics, but I think those 3 million people… January 16, 2017 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Teardowns 10 Years of iPhone This week marks a decade since Steve Jobs walked onto a MacWorld stage and announced Apple’s newest product: the iPhone. What a presentation it was—the iPhone was a game changer.… January 10, 2017 by Taylor Whitney
Repair Stories Hitting the Road for Independent Repair On a crisp Ohio morning in late November, Michael Oberdick climbed into his car and settled in for a long ride. A very long ride. Over the next 12 days,… December 27, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Teardowns The Most (and Least) Repairable Phones We Took Apart in 2016 Every year, we disassemble a lot of new phones at iFixit. In 2016, we took apart everything from the iPhone 7 to the (now recalled) Note7. After every teardown, we… December 22, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Teardowns AirPods Are Disposable and Hard to Recycle Apple AirPods are finally here. Eager to see what’s inside, we ripped them open like expectant children on Christmas morning. The inside is a series of little boards and interconnected… December 20, 2016 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Teardowns 2016 Was the Year of VR This year, iFixit did teardowns of a lot of virtual reality headsets (and accessories). So, how’d the Oculus Rift CV1, the PSVR, and the HTC Vive stack up against each… December 15, 2016 by Taylor Whitney
Fixers Even a Fire Can’t Bring Down This High School Robotics Team It was just after midnight when the fire alarms at San Luis Obispo High School started going off. The school’s computer lab was engulfed in flames. Firefighters smothered the flames,… December 14, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Repair Stories The 20 Best Instagram Repair Photos From 2016 iFixit has shared almost 300 pictures this year on Instagram. Many of them were reposts from other accounts. Some of them were my own. Here’s a few of my favorite… December 13, 2016 by Taylor Whitney
