Recycling Guess This Mystery Item Can you guess what this is? Tell me in the comments. February 25, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Product Design Hope for a Tool-Less Tomorrow I’ve seen the future, and not only does it work, it works without tools. It’s moddable, repairable, and upgradeable. Its pieces slide in and out of place with hand force.… February 24, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Product Design A Tale of Two Displays Our fine friends at Macrumors sent us a special little something in the mail the other day – the same purported iPad 3 screen with which they confirmed the existence… February 23, 2012 by Miro Djuric
Product Design A Visit to the Only American Mine for Rare Earth Metals This post was originally published in The Atlantic. That big hole in the ground? It’s a pit mine at the Molycorp Mountain Pass rare earth facility in California’s Mojave Desert.… February 21, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Fixers How Greg Kono Started the West Seattle Fixers Collective Greg Kono wasn't looking to start an organization. He'd spent almost twenty years moving around the west coast: studying environmental design and sculpture, building traditional Japanese kites out of bamboo… February 20, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Stories Fixing a Cracked Screen on Break iFixit user ShopperCruz submitted a story this week about how he fixed a broken screen on his iPhone 4S. He explains, "I had cracked my brand new iPhone 4s digitizer… February 19, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Product Design Demonstrate Your Love with Durable Design We talk a lot about products designed to break. Sometimes we forget to acknowledge companies that are doing it right—so today, kudos to Nokia's candybar phones. They're modular, nigh indestructible,… February 18, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
E-Waste UN E-Waste Africa Report: Up to 85% of Africa’s E-Waste Comes from Within Africa Last Friday, the UN's E-waste Africa Program reported findings from studies in 5 African countries (Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, and Nigeria) over the last 3 years. Poor African countries… February 17, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Gadgets PlayStation Vita Teardown We don't break gadgets — we rip them apart with style. We tear them down, if you will. Today we put our spudgers up against Sony's PlayStation Vita, the newest… February 16, 2012 by Miro Djuric
E-Waste Trading E-Waste Commodities On a Delhi street, a group of men load a pile of power supply units and optical drives into a truck to take them for recycling. We took this photo… February 15, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
