Repairs

The Apple Store’s New Mystery Machine Helps Unbreak Your iPhone Screen

Just the other day, Apple announced that you can now get your smashed iPhone screen fixed in-store for the low (?) cost of $150, with or without AppleCare. This is the machine that lets them do it. https://gizmodo.com/good-news-klutzes-apple-is-apparently-now-replacing-b-511178266 This picture of mini-Foxconn that’s now sitting behind Genius Bars all over the place was captured by…

Tech News Eric Limer

Road Repair Tech Sees and Fills Cracks On the Move

Repairing cracks in roadways is a costly and time-consuming job. So researchers have come up with an automated system to fill cracks in asphalt, which covers more ground in less time and could save money by extending the life of a road. The new method is an automated pavement crack detection and refilling system developed…

Gadgets Amy Kraft - New Scientist

Airbus Could Ground All Its A380s For Weeks for Wing Repairs

Airbus’s fleet of A380s has been beleaguered by problems with cracks in their wings since January. Now, the company has announced that they could all be grounded for up to eight weeks in order to repair the problems. The BBC reports that Airbus is on record as explaining that, if it grounds all the planes…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Replacing the World’s Biggest IMAX Screen Is As Difficult As It Sounds

At almost 97 feet tall and 117 feet wide, the screen at the Darling Harbour IMAX Theater in Sydney is the largest in the world. And after 16 years of service, it needed to be replaced. Planning for the upgrade took almost an entire year, and hanging the $250,000 1,760 pound screen required the assistance…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Fix Your Broken Game Consoles With iFixit’s Guides

The industrious folks at iFixit have published extensive manuals for 24 popular game consoles, detailing over 200 repairs and modifications with step-by-step guides and photographs. You knew there was a reason you were keeping that broken Game Gear around. Some of the consoles covered include: Microsoft – Xbox – Xbox 360 and 360 S Nintendo…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Apple Acknowledges Faulty Time Capsules—Travels Back to 2008 to Make Repairs

Apple issued a support statement over the weekend regarding its Time Capsule data backup solution—some of them have been breaking well before they should. But it’s OK, models from between Feb and June 2008 can be replaced, free. If you have a malfunctioning, out-of-warranty Time Capsule that “may not power on or may shut down…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

How To: Recover From a Soda-Spill Disaster

There are few moments in life quite as sickening as realizing that you’ve spilled a beverage on one of your gadgets. Because of that, we’ve put together a simple disaster plan for dealing with beverage-soiled electronics. 1. Act Fast Yeah, we know. You’re pissed. You just splashed merlot on your expensive gaming laptop. And while…

Tech News Alex Castle - MaximumPC

Verizon Literally Puts a Band-Aid on Droid’s Problematic Battery Door

I really like my Droid, but have had the same loose battery door problem as everybody else; it usually slides off while being removed from my pocket, which makes the otherwise-heavy-duty-feeling phone feel weak. Verizon’s solution? Also weak. Apparently Flickr user Anticitizen took his Droid to a Verizon store to see what could be done…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Microsoft Skimps on Shipping Boxes For Owners of RRoD-ed Xboxes?

It’s bad enough going through the hassle of shipping your Xbox 360 off to customer support, but now Microsoft won’t even give you the box to ship it in. Updated. A Consumerist reader complained that after his Xbox red-ringed – again – he called Microsoft to get a shipping box to mail his console in…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Texan Law Requires Computer Repair Techs To Have PI Licenses

Texas has a new law that makes it mandatory for computer repair technicians in the state to have private investigator licenses. This is being contested by at least one advocacy group that’s suing, as many techs don’t know they’re being criminals by doing their jobs. The strange new law comes about because sometimes in the…

Tech News Matt Hickey

Xbox 360 Bill Gates Edition (1 of 1 Limited Apology Run)

A few weeks back, an unlucky Xbox owner shipped off his customized Bungie autographed console to Microsoft’s repair center, and to his horrors they wiped it clean. Bungie resigned a console for him, but now, Microsoft is chiming in with a new console with Bill’s signature on it and hundreds of dollars worth of new…

Tech News Haroon Malik

Xbox 360 Repair Turnaround Times Are Down in the Crapper

The recent Xbox 360 warranty extension to three years has really done a number on the repair queue. Everyone must be sending in their broken Xboxes, since the turnaround time has increased from two weeks to as much as six. Anecdotally, it so happens that three people I know sent in their 360s around this…

Tech News Jason Chen

Xbox 360 Getting Added Cooling After Being Repaired

French Xbox 360 owners who’ve sent in their defective or broken Xboxes to Microsoft to fix are finding that the return console have a little extra “wooooosh” in them. Yeah, Microsoft’s adding extra cooling power to their Xbox 360s to address all the overheating problems. It’s about time, and probably should have been stuck into…

Tech News Jason Chen

Fix a Broken Xbox 360 with a Towel

You know, there is something funny about electronics sometimes. If you are an Xbox 360 owner it is likely that you have heard of the blinking red lights of doom. This is where the lights around the power button illuminate red meaning the 360 is done busted. Someone managed to fix this problem by doing…

Tech News Travis Hudson

The Apple Store’s New Mystery Machine Helps Unbreak Your iPhone Screen

Road Repair Tech Sees and Fills Cracks On the Move

Airbus Could Ground All Its A380s For Weeks for Wing Repairs

Replacing the World’s Biggest IMAX Screen Is As Difficult As It Sounds

Fix Your Broken Game Consoles With iFixit’s Guides

Apple Acknowledges Faulty Time Capsules—Travels Back to 2008 to Make Repairs

How To: Recover From a Soda-Spill Disaster

Verizon Literally Puts a Band-Aid on Droid’s Problematic Battery Door

Microsoft Skimps on Shipping Boxes For Owners of RRoD-ed Xboxes?

Texan Law Requires Computer Repair Techs To Have PI Licenses

Xbox 360 Bill Gates Edition (1 of 1 Limited Apology Run)

Xbox 360 Repair Turnaround Times Are Down in the Crapper

Xbox 360 Getting Added Cooling After Being Repaired

Fix a Broken Xbox 360 with a Towel

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