E-Waste E-Waste Not, Want Not: Americans Are Recycling More Electronics According to a new EPA report, Americans increased their overall production of municipal waste in 2013 to 254 million tons of waste—or 4.4 pounds per person per day. But e-waste… July 2, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Fixers Are You a Fixer? The 3 Traits of People Who Repair Are you the MacGyver of your family, making plant hangers out of old wine bottles and removing stripped screws with the help of a rubber band? Do you feel proudest… June 30, 2015 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Recycling Recycling of Rare Earth Metals Might Just Get a Little Less Rare Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania just pioneered a new way to recycle rare earth metals. That’s good news—because rare earth metals are the building blocks of our modern lives.… June 29, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Product Design This Keyboard Tells You How to Fix It Not only is this keyboard repairable—it's got repair instructions actually printed on the circuit board. Designing a product for repair means making it durable, making it modular, and making repair… June 16, 2015 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Teardowns LG G4 Teardown: X-ray Goggles Included Do you hear that? The phone repair gods are singing LG's praises. Why? Because the LG G4 just visited our teardown table. We couldn’t believe we were able to open… June 8, 2015 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Gadgets Pebble Time Impresses on Teardown Table Once upon a time, before the world was wild about wearables, there was just the Pebble. We cracked it open and birthed a new category of devices on iFixit. Fast… May 28, 2015 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Events Meet Us at Bay Area Maker Faire It’s that time of year again! The Bay Area Maker Faire is this weekend—May 16th and 17th at the San Mateo Event Center. If you’re planning to be at the… May 14, 2015 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Consumer Rights John Deere Responds to Copyright Mess It Made A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for Wired criticizing John Deere’s assertion that farmers shouldn’t be allowed to access the programming in their own tractors—not even for the… May 13, 2015 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Recycling CloseWEEE Is Trying to Reinvent Recycling—And We’re Helping In 2012, Europeans produced 9.5 million tons of e-waste. Effective recycling is absolutely critical to diverting electronics from landfills, recovering resources, and reusing as many materials as possible. In past… May 11, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Teardowns Apple Watch X-Ray Teardown There were a lot of unsolved mysteries after we tore down the Apple Watch, and that made us sad. So naturally, we made friends with the folks at Creative Electron… May 8, 2015 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
