Teardown: Dissecting Lenovo’s Smart Clock Essential, a non-Google Google Assistant
Bill-of-materials costs are of only partial profit influence in partner-subsidized consumer-electronic devices, as this engineer suspects may be the case…
HDMI adapter teardown
An inexpensive HDMI-to-USB converter doesn't support interlaced video inputs or greater-than-HD output resolutions, but still delivers a notable "bang for…
Teardown: Indoor security camera with embedded web server
That all said, cameras with embedded web servers are still conceptually cool. To wit, I thought I’d devote this teardown…
Teardown: Pixel Stand offers faster-than-Qi wireless charging for (some) Google fans
Google-branded phones and wireless chargers that deliver peak recharge speeds only when they're used together.
Past, present, and future(?) of smart glasses
Smart glasses are becoming thinner and lighter (albeit also more expensive) but this engineer is skeptical they'll ever be anything…
Teardown: Apple TV (3rd generation)
Step 1: Low BOM cost. Step 2: High sales price. Step 3: Profit! That's Apple's hardware business plan in a…
Teardown: Dissecting Snap’s third-gen AR glasses
Essentially cameras that you wear on your head, the 3rd-gen iteration of Snap's Spectacles is targeted at "fans of high…
Teardown: Cutting into a multicolor LED light bulb
EDN has dissected a lot of LED (and CFL, for that matter) light bulbs of late, but they've all been…
Balanced headphones: Can you hear the difference?
Learn the differences in balanced and unbalanced headphone...
Readers’ choice: The top 10 articles of 2020
This year, top articles run the gamut from DIYs and design ideas to coding methods, teardowns, and more. Read on…