Product Design Planned Obsolescence: Your Stuff Really Is Breaking Faster You aren’t imagining it. Turns out, your stuff really is breaking down more quickly than before. A recent study by a European environmental agency just confirmed it: the lifespan of… March 18, 2015 by Julia Bluff
How Tech Works How’s That Newfangled Force Touch Trackpad Work? Our teardown engineer, the auspicious Andrew Goldberg, sits down with Gwendolyn Gay, host of iFixit's YouTube channel, to explain the mysterious inner workings of the Force Touch trackpad. Check out… March 13, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Teardowns First Look Into Apple’s Fancy New Force Touch Track Pad After Apple's announcement of the new 12" MacBook, with its shiny renders and pressure sensitive, haptic-feedback-equipped trackpad, we were expecting to find an identical trackpad implementation in the new MacBook… March 12, 2015 by Andrew Goldheart
Teardowns New MacBook Air Teardowns Apple's "Spring Forward" event on Monday brought tantalizing teasers of tomorrow: A revolutionary new MacBook, details on their world-changing wearable, amazing new touchpad technology, and a couple of laptops from… March 11, 2015 by Andrew Goldheart
Repair Stories I Lived With a Broken Screen on my iPhone 5S—Then Fixed It Myself I teach people how to repair things for a living, so I know better than most that things break. Often catastrophically. I just didn’t think it would happen to me.… March 5, 2015 by Miro Djuric
Repair Stories How NASA Makes Old Things New Again to Solve the Mysteries of the Universe You can’t miss the engineering marvels when you walk into the hangar at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center. When I was at the facility, I saw various vintages of aircraft… March 3, 2015 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit
Repair Guides No-Brainer Repairs for No Brainer Day Today, my friends, is a holiday. A holiday for you. A holiday for me. A holiday for people who need to take a little mental breather. Today is No Brainer… February 27, 2015 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit
Repair Guides How Do I Fix My Drone? To get started, we invited our friend David Hoyt—Cal Poly Computer Engineering graduate and our local drone expert—to kick-start our Drone Repair section. David has built heavy lift octocopters to… February 25, 2015 by Andrew Goldheart
Repair Stories Schoolhouse Repair Rocks Jason Kingsnorth does a bus-load of repairs. Like, a school bus-load. He’s a Technology Aide/Coordinator at Bradley Schools in Bradley, Illinois—and half of the IT team that manages maintenance of… February 24, 2015 by Julia Bluff
iFixit iFixit Has Gone Android There’s a lot of fruit at iFixit. We have Apple repair guides, Apple teardowns, and Apple parts. We’ve even invented Apple tools. But there’s more to life than just Apples.… February 17, 2015 by Julia Bluff
