Teardowns MacBook Air 13″ Mid 2011 Teardown With the release of these newly-updated MacBook Airs, people have been asking us what Apple updated under the hood. The answer? More than is evident at first glance. The new… July 21, 2011 by Miro Djuric
Teardowns iPad 2’s New Display Driver IC We received word from our pals at Chipworks that newer versions of the iPad 2 are using a new display driver IC. Vintage iPad 2s (circa March 2011) contain a… July 19, 2011 by Miro Djuric
Teardowns Motorola Droid 3 Teardown After various iterations and special editions of the original Droid, a worthy successor has finally arrived! The third Droid to hail from the halls of Motorola -- smartly named Droid… July 18, 2011 by Miro Djuric
Tools HexBright Flex Programmable Flashlight Through some NASA lunar excavator connections (no joke) we learned about this absolutely smashing Kickstarter project. The HexBright Flex is a programmable flashlight that you can program however you'd like! July 13, 2011 by Miro Djuric
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
