France’s Fantastic Repairability Index
Hardware
Dec 01 2020
In the background of a tough year, people around the world have driven significant advancements in the Right to Repair. Voters in Massachusetts approved an initiative to open the data interfaces required to repair modern vehicles by an enormous margin. The greatest advancements though have been...
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In Defense of Dumb TVs
Hardware
Oct 28 2020
Smart TV was once a term reserved for high end televisions with built-in streaming capabilities. The combination of massive reductions in panel costs, decreasing costs for embedded compute, and the ready availability of content platforms from Google, Roku, and others has made the term irrelevant...
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Unplanned Obsolescence in Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Aug 03 2020
Calculating the Full Cost of a Hardware Product
Hardware
Jul 01 2020