Recycling Recycling of Rare Earth Metals Might Just Get a Little Less Rare Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania just pioneered a new way to recycle rare earth metals. That’s good news—because rare earth metals are the building blocks of our modern lives.… June 29, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Product Design This Keyboard Tells You How to Fix It Not only is this keyboard repairable—it's got repair instructions actually printed on the circuit board. Designing a product for repair means making it durable, making it modular, and making repair… June 16, 2015 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Teardowns LG G4 Teardown: X-ray Goggles Included Do you hear that? The phone repair gods are singing LG's praises. Why? Because the LG G4 just visited our teardown table. We couldn’t believe we were able to open… June 8, 2015 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Gadgets Pebble Time Impresses on Teardown Table Once upon a time, before the world was wild about wearables, there was just the Pebble. We cracked it open and birthed a new category of devices on iFixit. Fast… May 28, 2015 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Events Meet Us at Bay Area Maker Faire It’s that time of year again! The Bay Area Maker Faire is this weekend—May 16th and 17th at the San Mateo Event Center. If you’re planning to be at the… May 14, 2015 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Consumer Rights John Deere Responds to Copyright Mess It Made A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for Wired criticizing John Deere’s assertion that farmers shouldn’t be allowed to access the programming in their own tractors—not even for the… May 13, 2015 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Recycling CloseWEEE Is Trying to Reinvent Recycling—And We’re Helping In 2012, Europeans produced 9.5 million tons of e-waste. Effective recycling is absolutely critical to diverting electronics from landfills, recovering resources, and reusing as many materials as possible. In past… May 11, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Teardowns Apple Watch X-Ray Teardown There were a lot of unsolved mysteries after we tore down the Apple Watch, and that made us sad. So naturally, we made friends with the folks at Creative Electron… May 8, 2015 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Gadgets LG Watch Urbane Teardown Like clockwork, we’ve been tearing apart the world’s most-wanted wearables. Hot on the heels of Apple Watch armageddon, we cracked open the latest Android Wear offering—the LG Urbane. A peek… May 8, 2015 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Teardowns The Force Is Strong with This Teardown This Star Wars Day, we have something truly special for you. Some might think this is a Jedi mind trick—or, worse, it's a trap. Lay aside your cynicism, fixers, this… May 4, 2015 by Jeff Snyder
