Kyle Wiens writes: After flying to Richmond, Virginia and waiting in line all night to buy an iPad, we rushed our precious cargo to an impromptu studio. And took it apart. To our surprise, we found a number of differences between our unit and the FCC review unit that we examined yesterday. The iPad’s design […]
Continue Reading
The tinkerpaws over at iFixIt managed to scare up the prematurely posted FCC internal photos of the iPad and were able to remove the PDF layer obscuring the manufacturer parts information. Check out their analysis of the FCC photos. Apple requested this information stay concealed until August 17th. Clearly, the FCC ignored them. iPad FCC […]
Continue Reading
Our BFFs over at iFixIt went medieval on the just-released Nintendo DSi XL. They sort of looked at it as practice, keeping themselves in shape and head-sharp for this Saturday’s iPad release. You know they’ll be the first in line, screwdrivers and spudgers twitching in their hands. On the DSi XL teardown, Kyle writes: Nintendo […]
Continue Reading
I love how our pals over at iFixit are always the first in line to buy new gadgets as they come to market, so they can race them back to the shop to take them apart and find out what makes them tick. Their excitement and curiosity is almost palpable, and of course, we all […]
Continue Reading
Our buds at iFixIt wanted to see a teardown of a new Motorola Droid, so they offered a $300 bounty to the first person who’d field strip and document the deconstruction of their Droid. Dr. Wreck answered the call. Here are the results of his investigation. Kyle, of iFixIt, writes: The phone was quite a […]
Continue Reading
Now this is a welcomed development. The company Blendtec provided iFixIt with one of their Total Blenders to take apart and document. As you know, we’re always prattling on about “If You Can’t Open It, You Don’t Own It” and other litanies from The Maker’s Bill of Rights. This is a company that apparently understands […]
Continue Reading
Our friends over at iFixIt.com just couldn’t keep their screwdrivers and spudgers off of the new Coolpix S1000pj, the digital camera with a built-in video projector. They just had to find out how Nikon fit all that bleeding-edge tech into that tiny camera case. Here’s some of what they discovered in their testing and teardown: […]
Continue Reading
