Every week, we get a roundup of recent developments in Right to Repair news, courtesy of Jack Monahan and Paul Roberts from Fight to Repair, a reader-supported publication. Sign up to receive updates in your inbox. (It’s free!) Or become a premium subscriber for access to exclusive content and live events! A report from the New York Times shows that...
If you’ve ever tried to “future-proof” a purchase by paying for everything you might eventually need up front, you know it can be a sucker’s game. The problem? We can’t actually see the future. But today we got our hands on LPCAMM2 for the first time, and this looks like the future to us. LPCAMM2 is a totally modular, repairable, upgradeable memory...
Every week, we get a roundup of recent developments in Right to Repair news, courtesy of Jack Monahan and Paul Roberts from Fight to Repair, a reader-supported publication. Sign up to receive updates in your inbox. (It’s free!) Or become a premium subscriber for access to exclusive content and live events! Farmers are no strangers to promises about...
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,...