Repair Stories Fixing a Cracked Screen on Break iFixit user ShopperCruz submitted a story this week about how he fixed a broken screen on his iPhone 4S. He explains, "I had cracked my brand new iPhone 4s digitizer… February 19, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Product Design Demonstrate Your Love with Durable Design We talk a lot about products designed to break. Sometimes we forget to acknowledge companies that are doing it right—so today, kudos to Nokia's candybar phones. They're modular, nigh indestructible,… February 18, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
E-Waste UN E-Waste Africa Report: Up to 85% of Africa’s E-Waste Comes from Within Africa Last Friday, the UN's E-waste Africa Program reported findings from studies in 5 African countries (Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, and Nigeria) over the last 3 years. Poor African countries… February 17, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Gadgets PlayStation Vita Teardown We don't break gadgets — we rip them apart with style. We tear them down, if you will. Today we put our spudgers up against Sony's PlayStation Vita, the newest… February 16, 2012 by Miro Djuric
E-Waste Trading E-Waste Commodities On a Delhi street, a group of men load a pile of power supply units and optical drives into a truck to take them for recycling. We took this photo… February 15, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Consumer Rights How Nikon Is Killing Camera Repair On Monday, January 16th, Nikon Inc. sent a letter to independent camera repair technicians in the US to say that "it will no longer make repair parts available for purchase… February 14, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Teardowns Motorola Droid 4 Teardown It's the dawn of a new year, and 2012 brings another update to the Droid line of smartphones. Motorola's labs continue to evolve the Droid into a faster, slicker, and… February 13, 2012 by Miro Djuric
Tools A Wrench That Might Come in Handy In a new take on the hand wrench, designer Paul Julius Martus developed this cool cast bronze sculpture a couple years ago. The sculpture reminded me of our hand and… February 12, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Fixers A Different “Who” of Repair: Robot-Fixing Robots Just for fun: this picture was up in our office all last month, the January image in our demotivational calendar. Forget planned obsolescence of electronics—between robot-fixing robots and the singularity,… February 11, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Fixers At the Makerspace Urbana Help Desk, You Have to Help, Too Collaborative repair communities pop up in all kinds of locations: sometimes they're in art galleries. Sometimes they're part of larger makerspaces or hackerspaces—after all, fixing, creating, and modding share similar… February 10, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
