Teardown Confirms the Trump Phone Is a Gold-Painted HTC U24 Pro

Is the Trump phone actually made in America? Our deep-dive teardown reveals the Trump Mobile T1 is basically a gold-painted, rebranded HTC U24 Pro.

When Your Little Helper Needs Help

Robot vacuums are convenient until they aren’t. One moment, your robot is dutifully making its way across the living room. The next, it’s stuck under the sofa, failing to find…

Buyers’ Guide: What Soldering Setup Do You Actually Need?

In life, it’s almost always possible to get by with bad tools, or even the wrong tools. But at some point, using a flathead screwdriver as a chisel gets old.…

The Trump Phone Looks Suspiciously Like a HTC U24 Pro

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. Even if it’s covered in gold and two stripes short of a Star-Spangled Banner. Let's…

Why Do We Keep Letting Amazon Kill Kindles?

On May 20, 2026, Amazon is slapping long-time Kindle users in the face. In mere days, devices older than 2012 will be barred from the Kindle store. That means no…

How to Keep Your Robot Vacuum Running for Years (Not Months)

A robot vacuum cleaner is a lot more complex than a regular vac, but with the right care it can last you for years. The truth is that you can’t…

We’re Now Scoring Wireless Headphones (and One of Them Already Hit 10/10)

Earbuds tend to hog the wireless audio repair conversation, mostly because they keep handing us 0/10 scores like party favors. But over/on-ear headphones have been quietly accumulating their own catalog…

Why Your Washing Machine Smells (and How to Fix It for Good)

When was the last time you cleaned your washing machine? Never, because, like soap, it’s self cleaning, right? And yet: it smells. The good news is that it’s pretty easy…

Spring, Solder, and Side Quests

What sticks with me from the past few months of events isn’t the number of calendar days or the names of the people I’ve met (I’m terrible with names, by…

What Every Renter Should Know About Plumbing Repairs

This is the second post in a “What Every Renter Should Know” series. Also check out What Every Renter Should Know About Electrical Repairs. At home, plumbing is where the…

AirPods Max 2 Teardown: Same Design, No Fixes

Your Dishwasher Filter Is Disgusting: Here’s How to Clean It

There are two kinds of basic dishwasher design, the filter and the macerator. If you don’t know which one you have, and you’ve never opened it up to clean it/check…

A New Colorado Bill Could Blow a Hole in the Nation’s Strongest Right to Repair Law

You can kill a Right to Repair law without ever voting against Right to Repair. You just carve out a category so broad, so fuzzy, and so lawyer-friendly that the…

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra Has Brilliant Display with a Brutal Repair

There are two kinds of phone privacy: One keeps hackers from reading your messages. The other keeps out the nosy neighbor on the plane. Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra actually tackles…

Raspberry Pi Projects That Anyone Can Do

A lot of Raspberry Pi projects require typing commands into a text-based terminal to get things up and running, and to configure them once they are. But there are lots…

iPhone 17e Teardown Reveals an Upgrade 16e Owners Can Actually Use

The best thing about the iPhone 17e is not the chip bump, the modem update, or the extra storage. It is the ring of magnets Apple should have included last…

Apple Finally Made a Repairable MacBook?

MacBook Neo Is the Most Repairable MacBook in 14 Years

Is Apple’s most affordable laptop ever also one of its most repairable? For years, opening a MacBook has usually meant fighting your way through glue and buried parts. But the…

Everything You Need to Know Before You Fix a MacBook

The most affordable MacBook yet, the MacBook Neo, is currently in surgery on our teardown table! While our teardown engineers cook, we want to take a minute and look back…

How Apple Used to Design Its Laptops for Repairability

Apple’s MacBooks haven’t always been monolithic, barely repairable slabs of aluminum, glass, and glue. They used to be almost delightful in their repairable features, from their batteries to their Wi-Fi…

3D Printing Spare Parts Is Cool But Not A Silver Bullet

Last year my Baratza coffee grinder broke, and I was left to slum it with my ceramic-burr hand grinder with a bearing-mounted crank. It took a few days until a…