Product Design Repairman Takes Keurig to Task over Unfixable Machines Last year, the brew barons incited the wrath of java drinkers everywhere when they integrated DRM into their coffee machines—an attempt to stop customers from using third-party coffee pods. Keurig… December 21, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Product Design This Dumb Smart Fridge Shows Why the Internet of Things Will Break For over a year, owners of a Samsung smart fridge have been unable to use their fridge’s pre-installed Google Calendar app, proving what we all suspected: the Internet of Things… December 17, 2015 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Teardowns Apple Smart Battery Case Gets Torn Apart We've seen a lot of unprecedented Apple products this year—a smartwatch, an extra large iPad, even an iPad stylus and keyboard. So it shouldn't really surprise us that Apple released… December 10, 2015 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Fixers Introducing Kids to Repair: It’s Easier Than You Think You cringe as you hear it—the horrendous crack as the iPad slips from a pint-sized hand and falls to the floor. The children gasp; the lamentations begin. The iPad is… December 9, 2015 by Kelsea Weber - iFixit
How To How to Really Build a Budget Bike Repair Toolkit I’ve come across lots of articles that claim to tell you how to build a cycling toolkit for cheap. Somehow the word “cheap” stops recurring in the long list of… December 7, 2015 by Bek Maples
Gadgets We Took Apart a Steam Controller Valve traditionally operates in the realm of PC gaming—the last true bastion of upgradability and modularity—and it looks like this attitude carried over to this smaller package. A screwdriver, prying… December 2, 2015 by Evan Noronha
Activism iFixit at Work in the European Parliament We stopped by the European Parliament in Brussels to show some folks there how to fix their phones. The repair-focused showcase was part of massive effort to put Europe on… November 30, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Product Design Don’t Buy a Bad Tablet on Black Friday Cheap tablets are the consumer electronics equivalent of candy bars stacked at a check-out stand—ready and waiting to be your next impulse buy. This makes these tablets prime Black Friday… November 26, 2015 by Ron Davis
Fixers We’ve Got a Repair Crush on Patagonia Every tinkerer is an accidental environmentalist. Every fixer is waging an unwitting war against waste. Even if you repair just because you’d like to save money, even if you fix… November 25, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Teardowns Teardown Is Served—Apple Smart Keyboard The iPad Pro accessories are making Apple history—the first official iPad stylus, and now the first official iPad keyboard. We've seen inside an iPad Smart Cover and several Apple keyboards—but… November 24, 2015 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
