Gadgets Elster REX2 Smart Meter Teardown The electricity meter is one device that no household can escape, yet the technology utilized by analog meters dates to the late 19th century. Power engineers have recently developed an… July 12, 2011 by Miro Djuric
Teardowns What Makes the Thunderbolt Cable Lightning Fast It's the chips. And we're not talking about the Lay's variety. We received good word that the $50 Thunderbolt cable may contain chips with firmware in it, thus justifying the… June 29, 2011 by Miro Djuric
Gadgets Samsung Series 5 3G Chromebook Teardown Just over six months ago, Google released the Cr-48 prototype Chromebook to developers—promising that production hardware would be forthcoming. They weren’t lying! With today’s release of the first production Chromebook,… June 8, 2011 by Walter Galan
Teardowns Unveiled: Audience Powers iPhone 4’s Impressive Noise Cancellation When we analyzed the Nexus One last January, the big news was its Audience voice processor. The Audience chip takes advantage of two microphones (if you’re counting, that’s one more… May 17, 2011 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Gadgets FBI Tracking Device Teardown We partnered with Wired to bring you a peek inside an FBI car-tracking device. May 9, 2011 by Miro Djuric
Teardowns iMac 21.5″ (EMC 2428) Teardown We got up this morning to news that the new iMacs were out, so we knew what we had to do: start sharpening our suction cups! Our suction cup gamble… May 4, 2011 by Miro Djuric
Gadgets Nikon D5100 Teardown It seems as though all the hot new electronics these days are tablet-this, phone-that. Frankly, our engineers had enough. Their spudgers were getting soft; we needed to do something that… April 26, 2011 by Miro Djuric
Brain Candy iPhone 4 Transparent Rear Panel Electronic circuit boards can be a work of art, and the complexity of their design is something we marvel at. We hold that sentiment for the iPhone 4, which has… April 25, 2011 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Events Maker Faire 2011 Maker Faire is once again invading the San Mateo County Event Center May 21-22, and we need your help to run the iFixit Repair Center! Maker Faire is the epitome… April 14, 2011 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Repair Stories Restoring Your Headlights We at iFixit are fans of DIY car maintenance and repair just as much as for electronics. We feel it’s our civic duty to share with the world if we’ve… April 5, 2011 by Miro Djuric
