Gadgets Elster REX2 Smart Meter Teardown The electricity meter is one device that no household can escape, yet the technology utilized by analog meters dates to the late 19th century. Power engineers have recently developed an… July 12, 2011 by Miro Djuric
Teardowns What Makes the Thunderbolt Cable Lightning Fast It's the chips. And we're not talking about the Lay's variety. We received good word that the $50 Thunderbolt cable may contain chips with firmware in it, thus justifying the… June 29, 2011 by Miro Djuric
Gadgets Samsung Series 5 3G Chromebook Teardown Just over six months ago, Google released the Cr-48 prototype Chromebook to developers—promising that production hardware would be forthcoming. They weren’t lying! With today’s release of the first production Chromebook,… June 8, 2011 by Walter Galan
Teardowns Unveiled: Audience Powers iPhone 4’s Impressive Noise Cancellation When we analyzed the Nexus One last January, the big news was its Audience voice processor. The Audience chip takes advantage of two microphones (if you’re counting, that’s one more… May 17, 2011 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Gadgets FBI Tracking Device Teardown We partnered with Wired to bring you a peek inside an FBI car-tracking device. May 9, 2011 by Miro Djuric
Teardowns iMac 21.5″ (EMC 2428) Teardown We got up this morning to news that the new iMacs were out, so we knew what we had to do: start sharpening our suction cups! Our suction cup gamble… May 4, 2011 by Miro Djuric
Gadgets Nikon D5100 Teardown It seems as though all the hot new electronics these days are tablet-this, phone-that. Frankly, our engineers had enough. Their spudgers were getting soft; we needed to do something that… April 26, 2011 by Miro Djuric
Teardowns iPad 2 GSM & CDMA Teardown Apple offers the iPad 2 in a number of flavors that would make Baskin Robbins proud: two colors, three drive capacity sizes, and three connectivity choices (Wi-Fi only, GSM on… March 29, 2011 by Miro Djuric
Teardowns Nintendo 3DS Has 128MB RAM Our friends at Chipworks have decapsulated and analyzed the mysterious Fujitsu MB82M8080-07L chip we found in the Nintendo 3DS. It turns out that there's two FCRAM memory dies inside, giving… March 28, 2011 by Miro Djuric
Teardowns People for the Ethical Treatment of iPads We found this funny picture from Geek Culture and thought it was too good not to share: Needless to say…we’re still going to do iPad teardowns. March 21, 2011 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit