Product Design How Teenage Engineering Designed a Barcelona Factory to Build Its New K.O. II Sampler Teenage Engineering’s new K.O. II sampler is like a grown-up version of its Pocket Operator series, crossed with a 1970s/80s-era calculator. It’s getting musicians so excited that it sold out… January 22, 2024 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Repairability How Does the JRC Approach to Repairability Scoring Differ from iFixit’s? When it comes to repairability scoring, iFixit isn’t the only game in town anymore. In addition to the French Repairability Index, the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) also provides… September 16, 2023 by Beatriz Pozo Arcos - iFixit
Repairability Choose Repairability—Why and How Let’s face it: stuff breaks. Whether from accidental damage, like sharing a drink with your keyboard; or from wear and tear, like a cracked screen or a drained phone battery,… September 15, 2023 by Beatriz Pozo Arcos - iFixit
Repairability Repair Makes Cents Economic reasons for manufacturers to embrace repair Making products repairable has many well-touted benefits for the environment and society. It reduces waste from discarded products and lowers carbon emissions from… September 13, 2023 by Beatriz Pozo Arcos - iFixit
Repairability iFixit Repairability Score and the French Repairability Index: A Brief Comparison There are many approaches when it comes to repairability—what factors to consider, how much each one should weigh in a scoring system, and how to incorporate a wide range of… September 12, 2023 by Beatriz Pozo Arcos - iFixit
Repairability Going for Gold—Creating iFixit’s Gold Standard of Repair Working at iFixit means repair is always on your mind. As Right-to-Repair legislation passes and more manufacturers look to us for guidance, we find ourselves having more and more late-night… September 6, 2023 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit
Product Design How iFixit Scores Repairability Everyone wants their favorite phone or laptop to get an awesome repairability score. So do we! Unfortunately, we don’t make the rules. Wait a minute—we do make the rules! At… May 18, 2023 by Jeff Suovanen - iFixit
