Repair Stories Fan Repair: So Easy These Gradeschoolers Can Do It There are two things we keep telling people about repair. (1) It’s probably easier than you think. (2) If it’s already broken and destined for the trash, you really have… September 14, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Fixers We Dare You to Go a Year Without Buying Clothes How long do you think you could go without buying new clothes? As in, no new pants. No new socks. Not even new underwear. A couple of months, maybe? Well,… September 11, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Right to Repair Wall Street Journalist Backs Right to Repair Geoffrey Fowler has a friend with a Samsung TV that inexplicably stopped working halfway through a movie. Geoff’s friend thought she had no other option than to replace it. Geoffrey—a… September 9, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Repair Guides Repairs to Start Off Your School Year Summer vacation is nearly over! Textbooks, existential angst, and student loans loom on the horizon. What's a student to do? In our opinion, the best way to prepare for the… August 27, 2015 by Ron Davis
Skills Everything You Wanted to Know About Microsoldering The box arrived at our office early one morning—non-descript, heavy, and unmarked. Its very ordinariness obscuring the splendor of its contents. iFixit is in the business of tools and teardowns,… August 24, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Gadgets a7R II Teardown Exposes Sony’s 5-Axis SteadyShot For today’s episode of iFixit Teardown Time, we present your pupils with a peek inside the Sony a7R II. Now we’ve been hearing all sorts of hoopla about Sony’s second… August 19, 2015 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Wallpapers Wallpaper Your OnePlus 2 with Its Own X-Ray Scan Our friends at Creative Electron let us pop the new OnePlus 2 into their X-ray machine and take a look-see at its insides during our last teardown. So, we turned… August 17, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Teardowns OnePlus 2 = Teardown Last year we tore down the OnePlus One—an initial offering from a scrappy Shenzhen startup. Their first attempt didn't fare too well on the teardown table, scoring a middling 5/10… August 13, 2015 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Product Design Ethical, Modular, Repairable: Fairphone Is Making a Smarter Smartphone Fairphone isn’t your everyday mobile phone maker. While Google has a sprawling campus in Silicon Valley, Fairphone has just the one regular office in Amsterdam. And while Apple has sold… August 7, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Repair Stories Wilderness Wear and Boot Repair My boots have been through a lot—weekend hikes, snowshoeing in high country, and dozens of backpacking trips. And it looked like they’d hiked their last. I feel like I owe… August 4, 2015 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit
