Product Design Why is Anyone Surprised that Kindles Are Too Breakable for Children? In five African schools, a non-profit organization is giving a Kindle to every student, to make textbooks cheaper. But the devices keep breaking. May 9, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Product Design Space Shuttle Discovery Still Inspires The Space Shuttle Discovery travelled 148 million miles before being retired last year—the equivalent of flying all the way to the sun and more than halfway back. I saw it… May 8, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
iFixit “You Wouldn’t Throw Away A Car Because You Broke the Windshield” Kyle was interviewed last week by Jamillah Knowles, of the BBC Radio 5 Live podcast Outriders. May 4, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Product Design What Bamboo Can Do For You In a low, canary yellow warehouse in Kumasi, Ghana, eleven men command a mass of tools—a band saw, grinder, and drill press—to clean and prepare a pile of bamboo. They're… May 2, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Product Design DIY Cell Phone Is Clunky But Geektastic At a recent open house, the MIT Media Lab debuted a prototype of a DIY build your own cell phone kit. (A "do-it-yourcellf" phone? I know...there's a special place in… May 1, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Fixers How You Can Make Bank with Broken Phones The cracked iPhone screen, with its web of glass shards that turn the digitizer into a kaleidoscope, is now practically as iconic as the iPhone itself. with a few good… April 30, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Gadgets HP Z1 Teardown & The First-Ever 10/10 Repairability Score Today, we gave our first ever 10 out of 10 repairability score—to HP's new Z1 all-in-one workstation! It is the most repairable PC we've ever had the pleasure to take… April 26, 2012 by Miro Djuric
Fixers The Boy Who Stole America’s Hearts With a Cardboard Arcade Bored last summer, hanging around his dad's East LA auto parts store, Caine Monroy decided to make his own entertainment. He built an elaborate cardboard-and-tape arcade. Every time Caine wants… April 24, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
iFixit 5 Ways Manuals Suck More Than Root Canals iFixit started in 2003, when Luke and I discovered that there were no good online instructions for taking apart a MacBook. So, we decided to write our own instructions. Since… April 23, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Activism Earth Day: Go Green, Save Green, Fix Stuff We say it a lot, but in honor of Earth Day, we'll say it again: repair is green! Fixing stuff keeps it out of landfills and keeps green in your… April 22, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
