Consumer Rights How Nikon Is Killing Camera Repair On Monday, January 16th, Nikon Inc. sent a letter to independent camera repair technicians in the US to say that "it will no longer make repair parts available for purchase… February 14, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Teardowns Motorola Droid 4 Teardown It's the dawn of a new year, and 2012 brings another update to the Droid line of smartphones. Motorola's labs continue to evolve the Droid into a faster, slicker, and… February 13, 2012 by Miro Djuric
Tools A Wrench That Might Come in Handy In a new take on the hand wrench, designer Paul Julius Martus developed this cool cast bronze sculpture a couple years ago. The sculpture reminded me of our hand and… February 12, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Fixers A Different “Who” of Repair: Robot-Fixing Robots Just for fun: this picture was up in our office all last month, the January image in our demotivational calendar. Forget planned obsolescence of electronics—between robot-fixing robots and the singularity,… February 11, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Fixers At the Makerspace Urbana Help Desk, You Have to Help, Too Collaborative repair communities pop up in all kinds of locations: sometimes they're in art galleries. Sometimes they're part of larger makerspaces or hackerspaces—after all, fixing, creating, and modding share similar… February 10, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Stories Good Things Come in Pairs: Two Time-Lapse MacBook Repair Videos Funny how people sometimes have the same great idea simultaneously, in two different places. Darwin and Wallace, Wheatstone and Morse, Antz and A Bug's Life… We had our own little… February 9, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Teardowns The Droid Razr Packs New Hardware Our original Droid Razr teardown from last November revealed how the device packs all that fun hardware into such a thin form factor. But recently we've heard the good word… February 8, 2012 by Miro Djuric
Activism Our Statement to the US Copyright Office about Jailbreaking Just two days to send your comments to bunnie and the US Copyright Office. Here’s the statement we made to the Copyright Office today: US Copyright Office, Please extend the… February 7, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Fixers Nurse, Heal Thy iPod: Mike Tyran Fixes People and Their Stuff I wouldn't have made a connection between electronics repair and nursing. But as soon as Mike Tyran told me he did both, the parallels suddenly seemed obvious: making broken things… February 6, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Tools What Tool Can’t You Live Without? This fuel injector tester was the centerpiece of a Nairobi car repairman's shop, until it was damaged in a huge diesel fire that devastated his neighborhood. What tool can't you… February 5, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
