E-Waste Kyle Testifies at USITC Hearing on E-Waste Kyle spoke this week at a U.S. International Trade Commission hearing on used electronics exports. The hearing will be an important source for a USITC study for the U.S. Trade… May 18, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Tech News Open Sesame: Woz Joins the Call For a More Open Apple Apple has made a lot of proprietary, anti-open-source business decisions lately: Pentalobe screws to keep you out of your phone, super-strong adhesives to keep you out of your iPad, and… May 17, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Fixers Computer Repair Is the New Lemonade Stand Fourteen-year-old Owen Cunneely once spent five hours chipping tiny pieces of broken glass off a MacBook Pro screen with a metal spudger. The laptop's screen was horrifically shattered—he couldn't get… May 16, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Stories When Learning How to Solder a Cell Phone, the Devil’s in the Details Component-level repair cell phone repair is becoming increasingly uncommon in the west. But in Delhi, any good mobile repair worker knows how to solder. I took this photo in a… May 12, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Teardowns Introducing New Mirrored iPhone 4/ iPhone 4S Rear Panels! You have something in your teeth, and we wouldn’t have to be the ones to tell you if you’d just carry a mirror. And before you go telling us how… May 10, 2012 by
Product Design Why is Anyone Surprised that Kindles Are Too Breakable for Children? In five African schools, a non-profit organization is giving a Kindle to every student, to make textbooks cheaper. But the devices keep breaking. May 9, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Product Design Space Shuttle Discovery Still Inspires The Space Shuttle Discovery travelled 148 million miles before being retired last year—the equivalent of flying all the way to the sun and more than halfway back. I saw it… May 8, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
iFixit “You Wouldn’t Throw Away A Car Because You Broke the Windshield” Kyle was interviewed last week by Jamillah Knowles, of the BBC Radio 5 Live podcast Outriders. May 4, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Product Design What Bamboo Can Do For You In a low, canary yellow warehouse in Kumasi, Ghana, eleven men command a mass of tools—a band saw, grinder, and drill press—to clean and prepare a pile of bamboo. They're… May 2, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Product Design DIY Cell Phone Is Clunky But Geektastic At a recent open house, the MIT Media Lab debuted a prototype of a DIY build your own cell phone kit. (A "do-it-yourcellf" phone? I know...there's a special place in… May 1, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
