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
Product Design Watchmaker, Watchmaker Make Me a Watch I don’t think I ever realized how amazing mechanical watches are until I saw one dissected in front of me—its labyrinth of gears, screws, and wheels untangled and laid out… May 1, 2015 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Teardowns Apple Watch Teardown The eight-month wait is over! We got the Apple Watch on our teardown table and did what we do best. With a razor blade in one hand and a filed-down… April 24, 2015 by Andrew Goldheart
Consumer Rights We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership It's official: John Deere and General Motors want to eviscerate the notion of ownership. Sure, we pay for their vehicles. But we don’t own them. In a particularly spectacular display… April 21, 2015 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Teardowns Retina MacBook 2015 Teardown With an all-new design, an updated trackpad, and a super sleek chassis, the Retina MacBook 2015 is being touted as “the future of the notebook.” Sure, it looks awesome on… April 15, 2015 by Julia Bluff