E-Waste Meet the Men Who Made Us Spend If you’ve ever been at the tail end of a line full of cranky, frenzied, mashed-potato-fueled Black Friday shoppers, you know: we’re a consumer society. Even after the holidays, exorbitant… January 21, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Recycling You Won’t Believe What Scientists Are Doing with Fish Sperm In yet another fascinating episode of “Yeah science, bitch!,” it turns out that salmon semen is good for more than just making more salmon. Aside from being a delicacy in… January 19, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Repair Stories School of Hard Drive Knocks At Pacific Lutheran University, a student-run help desk will service "anything with a current." David Domask has trained 17 student techs, many of whom arrive with no prior repair experience—and… January 14, 2015 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Guides Repair Guides for Winter: Don’t Get Stiffed by Your Broken Stuff Baby, it’s cold outside! Well, not for us. We live in California, where it’s a currently hovering at a balmy 60 degrees. But, for the rest of the country, winter… January 12, 2015 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit
Fixers Meet the Micro Soldering Mom When Jessa's kids flushed her iPhone down the toilet, she decided she was going fix it herself. After all, the only thing wrong was a tiny charging coil on the… January 7, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Fixers ‘Car Talk’ Thinks Repair Is Noble, Too If we could boil iFixit down to one single tenet, it would be this: Repair is noble. To us, repair is more than a transitory act. It has lasting effects.… January 6, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Repair Stories 6 DIY Repairs Saved These Fixers Over $4000 We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Fixing things yourself saves you money. But how much money? We heard recently from six fixers who got quotes from repair… January 5, 2015 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Consumer Rights DRM Kitty Litter: The Only Thing Stupider Than DRM Coffee Earlier this year, we told you about Keurig’s attempt to quash off-brand coffee by integrating DRM into its newest model of brewing machine. At the time, we thought that coffee… December 30, 2014 by Julia Bluff
Repair Stories Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven What do you do when your laptop has persistent heat issues and all the usual fixes fail? iFixit programmer Sterling describes how he fixed his MacBook Pro with a drill… December 29, 2014 by Sterling Hirsh
Product Design Shit That Breaks: Don’t Buy Disposable Electric Toothbrushes Disposable electric toothbrushes have built-in batteries that can't be replaced. Sometimes stuff that seems convenient is a big pain in the long run—it breaks, and it can't be fixed. Buy… December 23, 2014 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
