2020-05-18 - Brian Dipert
Teardown: What makes the Amazon Fire TV Stick tick?
Cracking open the Apple Fire TV Stick is easy, but identifying all the components is a different story...
2020-04-27 - Brian Dipert
Teardown: Voice-activated, Wi-Fi-connected dimmer switch
Want to put "smart" lighting in your house? This smart dimmer combines a dual-microphone array and speaker, voice-command processing, and…
2020-04-07 - Brian Dipert
Teardown: Fitbit Flex doesn’t easily give up its secrets
Sometimes to understand where we are and where we might be going, it can be useful to look back at…
2017-10-16 - Daniel Yang, TechInsights
Teardowns Explore Bluetooth, Cellular IoT
TechInsights explored some of the Bluetooth and cellular IoT devices that it expects will dominate the Internet of Things for…
2017-10-06 - Rick Merritt, EE Times
Apple Watch Packs Qualcomm LTE
Qualcomm supplied the LTE modem in the Apple Watch Series 3 as well as a handful of other wireless chips,…
2017-09-16 - Brian Dipert
Teardown: The DOCSIS 2.0 cable modem falls out of favor
DOCSIS 2.0 cable modems may not be state of the art, but they're still sufficient for many cable Internet customers'…