teardown
Grab a cup of coffee and strap in, because this pitch deck teardown is pretty different from most of the ones I’ve done to date.
Today we’re tearing down the $9.7 million seed pitch deck used by Arkive, a startup that is trying to answer the question: “What if the Smithsonian was owned and curated…
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Teardown of Magic Leap One reveals highly advanced placeholder tech
The screwdriver-happy dismantlers at iFixit have torn the Magic Leap One augmented reality headset all to pieces, and the takeaway seems to be that the device is very much a…
iPhone X teardown finds major changes inside the gleaming exterior
The iPhone 8 may have been filled with the expected kit, but we’ve all been looking forward to finding out what fun Apple’s engineers had putting together the all-new iPhone…
A Nike HyperAdapt teardown might hint at what’s to come for the self-lacing shoes
Surely everyone who picked up a pair of Nike’s limited-edition HyperAdapt self-lacing shoes had at least some small desire to rip them open to find out how they worked. But…
Teardown of HTC Vive highlights the headset’s differences from Oculus Rift
Today’s VR headsets are marvels of miniaturization. And, as iFixit’s teardowns show, both the Oculus Rift and HTC’s Vive are also remarkably user-friendly when it comes to repair and customization.
Google’s Project Tango prototype smartphone is armed with four cameras to allow it to take stock of its environment and record and use 3D depth-sensing info, and it’s basically just…
iFixit’s iPad Air Teardown Reveals Tightly Packed Innards Dominated By A Big Battery
Apple’s iPad Air goes on sale today – it’s easily the best iPad Apple’s put out so far, but we’re waiting with bated breath for the iPad mini with Retina…
Google Glass Gets A Teardown, Revealing It Can Be Hacked To Prescription Glasses
Google Glass isn’t in the hands of consumers yet, but a pair of intrepid Glass explorers didn’t let that stop them from taking the thing apart to see what makes…
Microsoft Surface Pro Teardown Reveals It’s Less Repairable Than Apple’s iPad
The Microsoft Surface Pro is just getting into its first week of consumer availability, and gadget repair blog iFixit has already cracked the case for a closer look at what…
iPad Mini Teardown Reveals Samsung Display And Yes, Stereo Speakers
Apple’s iPad mini got the teardown treatment this morning, one day ahead of its official launch in stores. The diminutive tablet gave up its secrets to iFixit’s expert disassembly staff,…
Microsoft Surface Teardown Reveals It’s More Repairable Than iPad Thanks To Modular Components
Popular gadget repair site iFixit has taken the Microsoft Surface apart to see what makes it tick, and discovered a tablet/PC that scores higher on repairability than Apple’s iPad and…
iFixit, bless their hearts, have taken a Kindle Fire to pieces, though as it turns out, there aren’t too many pieces to begin with. The battery is one huge unit,…
iFixIt Tears Down The Motorola Xoom, Finds It Full Of Parts, Air
The Motorola Xoom, like the iPad, is mostly dead air and a battery. iFixIt did their best to tear out all the important bits, finding a large screen, a handsome…
Teardown Of Nikon D7000 Shows Off The Well-Packed Interior Of A Modern DSLR
I wouldn’t say this teardown of a D7000 is of particular interest over, say, a Canon or Pentax, but you don’t often get to see brand-new DSLRs cracked open like…
Spoiler: The inside of a Windows Phone 7 device looks like the inside of an Android or iOS device — just so you know. Didn’t want you proceeding expecting to…
New MacBook Air Teardown Reveals Relatively Few Apple Design Secrets
In classic iFixit fashion, the latest Apple laptop has been torn to pieces a mere day after its release event. How exciting! Now we get to find out how Apple…
TC Teardown: 13 Ways To Get To $10 Million In Revenues (Part I)
After last month’s TechCrunch Disrupt, and to provide a business companion to the popular “Lean Startup” customer development methodology, this TC Teardown focuses not on how one specific company makes…
Tearing down the iPod Shuffle may look easy – it is, after all, made of a few pieces of aluminium press-fitted and glued together – but the poor lads at…
If you’ve ever wanted to know what was inside of a Dell Streak, have we got a web page for you. Our buddies at iFixIt ripped up the Dell Streak,…
The Motorola Droid 2 Gets Released And Ripped Apart In The Same Day
The Droid 2 hit VZW stores earlier today, but yet the mad scientists over at iFixit already got their hands on one and tore it apart in the name of…
TC Teardown: Chegg Is A Money Machine
Editor’s note: Book rental startup Chegg is making money hand over fist. Guest author Steven Carpenter does a teardown of its business model and estimates its revenues will reach $130…
TC Teardown: Zynga's Profit Machine At Risk
Editor’s note: In this guest post, entrepreneur Steven Carpenter does a teardown of Zynga’s business model and calculates an estimate of its profits. Like YouTube, Twitter, and Groupon, social gaming…
Desperate to see what’s under the smooth exterior of your new iPad 3G but don’t want to crack it open and void the warranty? Fear not, friend. iFixit has done…
Did the HTC HD2 teardown from this morning leave you wanting more? Here’s the Droid splayed out for the whole word to see.
iFixit has torn up the new iMac to reveal the delicate inner workings of both the machine and its attendant Magic Mouse. Obviously the biggest issue here is removing the…
Imagine if it were your job to race to the Apple store whenever anything came out, and then as soon as you step outside, to just hurl it against the…
iFixit shows the inner workings of a Nikon Coolpix S1000pj camera
I could care less about iPod teardowns. I mean, who the hell cares anymore. It’s an iPod. But I looked at nearly every picture of iFixit’s teardown of the Nikon…
Of course the Zune HD has been torn apart and photographed
It’s a tradition around these parts to photograph a dissected gadget. This time around it’s the new Zune HD which looks just as good on the inside as it does…