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Will the iPhone 5 Be Repairable?
Apple just announced the brand new iPhone 5, which will be released September 21st. As we expected, the thinner-and-lighter trend has continued: It’s 18% thinner and 20% lighter than the iPhone 4S,...
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iPhone 5: An Evolution in Repair
This article originally ran with TreeHugger. The iPhone 5 is selling in droves—more than 5 million iPhones in just three days. You can tell at a glance that this iPhone is different. It is 20 percent...
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Chemical Analysis Reveals that New Phones Have Fewer Toxics
High technology feels so clean—no coal or steam or mess, just cool aluminum, sleek plastics, and polished glass. But that clean surface hides an interior that is far messier and more toxic. In...
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One Tablet per Child?
Last week, amidst the sweeping political mandates of the Presidential debates, education Secretary Arne Duncan made a mandate of his own, calling for the nation to ditch printed textbooks in favor of...
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The Retina MacBook Pro was ‘verified’ EPEAT Gold, But it’s Not Green
Apple’s latest unsustainable design was just greenlighted by the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool registry (EPEAT). And it’s a clear case of greenwashing. Apple’s Retina MacBook...
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The Next Generation of Smart Product Design
iFixit recently partnered with Core77 and Autodesk to sponsor the second Design for (Your) Product Lifetime contest. And the winners are in! The design content challenged student participants to throw...
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What Tech Manufacturers Have Wrong: How to Design Electronics For Repair
If you’ve ever heard of iFixit, you probably know that we’re always calling for more repairable electronics. Repair is good for the planet—fixing something old instead of buying new means less toxic...
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Sugru Fixer’s Manifesto
If you haven’t heard of Sugru, you’ve been missing out—it’s a self-setting moldable rubber, great for repairing plastics and making small parts. Inspired by the iFixit Manifesto, Platform 21, Holstee,...
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The Dangers of Disposable Furniture
Sing O Muse, of the terrible furniture that once adorned my college apartments. Sing of the pockmarked TV stand made of the heaviest particle board. Of the back pain my father and brother have endured...
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We’re Running Out of Resources, and It’s Going to Be OK
The economy is broken. It’s not because of partisan bickering or the debt ceiling. It’s not because there is too much government spending or too little, too many taxes or too few. The problem cuts much...
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How Repairable Is Your Tablet?
Every time you walk into an electronics store, you’re making a choice. Every gadget you buy is a vote cast. We want people to make informed decisions, as their vote influences how hardware...
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The Wright Way to Teach Engineering
By Wilbur Wright [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons We’ve said it before: repair teaches engineering. During a recent trip to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C., I was...
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The Serious Downside to Slim Design
Picture it: you need to buy a new remote control. You cruise to the store to pick up a new remote and some extra AA batteries—they run out, after all. Best be prepared. You take the remote home, open...
View ArticleDesigns Exposed: The Fascinating Gutted Gadgets of Things Come Apart
When is the last time you saw a teardown of a Zenith CH 650 aircraft? Unfortunately, the iFixit teardown room isn’t large enough to accommodate a small plane (yet…), but that’s where Todd McLellan’s...
View ArticleFrom the Cradle to the Upcycle
Around here, we’re big fans of William McDonough and Michael Braungart’s 2002 book Cradle to Cradle. McDonough (an architect) and Braungart (a chemist) completely re-imagine the manufacturing...
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Announcing Liberation Week
Update: That went fast! We blew threw 1,776 liberation kits as fast as a gaggle of kids with a box of sparklers. But there are a lot more people that need liberating! So we’ve dropped the price on our...
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You’ve Probably Never Seen Old Video Games Like This
You’ve played old arcade games. Maybe you’ve even played old arcade games on your tablet. But have you ever played old arcade games with all the components of your tablet? Martin Spengler and his...
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