How Tech Works What All Those Dashboard Lights on Your Car Actually Mean Ever notice your car’s instrument cluster lighting up like a Christmas tree when you start it up? All those lights and symbols tell you what your car is up to… June 18, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
How Tech Works Rice Is for Dinner, Not Repair Rice can transform an economy, save a boring meal, and stop winter drafts. One thing it absolutely, positively cannot do is save a wet cell phone. In fact, submerging your… June 17, 2019 by Kevin Purdy
How Tech Works How Humidifiers Work If you’re suffering through dry weather, a humidifier can quench your arid home by adding some moisture into the air. Here’s how these devices work. There are several different types… June 13, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
How Tech Works Does Dark Mode Really Save Battery on Your Phone? At WWDC today, iOS 13 was shown with a system-wide “Dark Mode.” About one month earlier, at Google I/O, Android version Q showed off its own Dark Mode. This shift… June 3, 2019 by Kevin Purdy
How Tech Works Smartphone Data Has a Larger Carbon Footprint Than You Might Think As the experts on the insides of devices, we talk a lot about how repair and repair-friendly hardware are key in slowing down the growing e-waste crisis. But a smartphone’s… March 22, 2019 by Dorothea Kessler
How Tech Works How Ultrasonic Fingerprint Sensors Work There’s no doubt that the Galaxy S10 is a sexy phone, and while the new hole-punched display has everyone talking, the in-display fingerprint sensor is also something to marvel at.… March 14, 2019 by Craig Lloyd - iFixit
How Tech Works iPhones Are Allergic to Helium This is the kind of tale that you don’t hear every day. During the installation of a new MRI machine, a technician started getting calls that iPhones weren’t working—but Androids… October 30, 2018 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Fixers Your Smartphone Battery, Explained When it’s your job to take devices apart and figure out how they work, you start to think about them differently. I like to think about the complex circuitry of… September 3, 2018 by Arthur Shi - iFixit
How Tech Works What Will Months of Catching Pokémon Do To Your Battery? Everyone knows Pokémon GO wreaks havoc on your daily battery life. But that hasn’t stopped people from playing it. And since we’ll probably still be dodging mobs of Pokémon hunters… July 26, 2016 by Anthony Pileggi
How Tech Works How’s That Newfangled Force Touch Trackpad Work? Our teardown engineer, the auspicious Andrew Goldberg, sits down with Gwendolyn Gay, host of iFixit's YouTube channel, to explain the mysterious inner workings of the Force Touch trackpad. Check out… March 13, 2015 by Julia Bluff