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What’s better than coming in to work on a Monday to find a brand spanking new AI device on your teardown table? Finding two brand spanking new AI devices on your teardown table of course! And controversial devices at that! On the one hand, we’ve had the drama around MKBHD being accused of attempting to sink both Fisker and Humane AI and on the other...

iFixit is a proud supporter of the 2024 Open Hardware Summit taking place May 3 & 4, 2024 in Montreal, Canada. Hardware is hard. It’s a bit of a cliché to say so, but it’s a saying for a reason. Hardware is cost-intensive to develop, takes a lot of time and expertise to get right and when something goes wrong, fixing it can be a tough challenge....

Here’s a simple truth: Making high-tech devices affordable, portable, durable, and mass-producible isn’t easy—especially if you also include profitable, a.k.a. not going out of business in the process. The design, engineering, and manufacturing challenges for the OEMs who make your favorite devices are real, and they are not trivial. And lo, adhesives—inexpensive,...

On Tuesday, the European Parliament finally voted to adopt the Directive on Common Rules Promoting the Repair of Goods legislation with 584 votes in favor, 3 against, and 14 abstentions. The law, which took intense campaigning by Right to Repair advocates and two years of work, is a landmark in the EU’s push towards a more sustainable and repairable...

If you thought computers and smartphones were bad for repairability and upgradeability, you should take a look at music gadgets, where locked-down feature sets and non-user-replaceable batteries are the norm. The Oberheim MC2000 MIDI controller, for instance, has a standard-size CR2032 battery (cool!) but to change it, you need to desolder the battery...