Video Teardown: Inside the Osram Lightify LED smart connected light
How do you rig up an LED bulb so it works on the internet of things? That’s the question we try to answer in this teardown of a smart LED bulb and gateway from Osram Sylvania. In a nutshell, it is a...
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Teardown: Inside a $50 smart phone, the Blu R1 HD
The online retailer Amazon made headlines when it introduced a super-inexpensive smart phone from Blu Products in Miami called the R1 HD. The media splash arose because Amazon Prime members could get...
View ArticleVideo Teardown: What’s inside Ikea’s TRADFRI smart lightbulb?
A new LED bulb from the furniture maker Ikea of Sweden comes with its own remote controller which mounts to the wall and uses Bluetooth to switch the bulb on and off, adjust bulb color temperature and...
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Teardown: The Garmin Forerunner 220 sport watch and heart monitor
Chest-mounted electronics do a more accurate job of counting heart beats than do optical sensors on the wrist. That’s one of the conclusions to come out of a close look at this sport watch aimed at...
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Teardown: Inside the Anki Overdrive racecar set
Robotic race cars make clever use of software and infrared optics to follow lines slyly hidden on the track. Leland Teschler, Executive Editor The Overdrive starter kit we analyzed contains sections of...
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Teardown: The electronics of Hello Barbie
Parents leery of privacy invasion have little to fear from Barbie, whose language skills mainly reside in the cloud. There’s been a lot of discussion in the media about privacy and home appliances that...
View ArticleVideo Teardown: The electronics of Hello Barbie
The internals of the Hello Barbie doll are relatively simple. And parents worried that Barbie might be listening surreptitiously to their kids have nothing to fear, as we discovered when we analyzed...
View ArticleVideo Teardown: Could Mr. Robot have really hacked the Steel Mountain HVAC...
TV viewers who tuned into episode five (having the catchy title “eps1.4_3xpl0its.wmv”) of Mr. Robot watched the main character employ a hack that destroyed magnetic tape data backups held at Evil...
View ArticleVideo Teardown: Inside Ketra’s $100 A20 LED light bulb
We took a look inside an LED bulb from high-end lighting supplier Ketra to understand its super-neat abilities to change color temperature and dim down to zero light via wireless control or...
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Teardown: The super-adjustable Ketra A20 LED bulb
Ketra unapologetically charges $100 for its A20 LED bulb, and the bulb needs a controller to work. Here’s what you find inside the bulb that makes it worth the premium price. A tunable A20-style LED...
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Teardown: The Apple Sport watch
Apple recently came out with the Series 3 version of its watch. We can get an idea of how the Series 3 goes together from a teardown analysis of Apple’s earlier Sport model. The front of the watch...
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Teardown: Inside Sphero’s R2-D2 toy
Our teardown of R2-D2 shows what’s inside this little droid with a big personality. One of the hot new toys released in advance of the new Star Wars movie is R2-D2 by Sphero, the same toymaker that...
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Teardown: Inside Amazon’s Echo Dot
The Amazon Echo Dot is essentially the top portion of the Amazon Echo, but without the speaker underneath it. Eliminating the big speaker drops the price of the from $180 for the Echo to $50 for the...
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Teardown: Inside the TP-Link Archer C7 wireless router
Here is what the architecture of modern-day dual-speed Ethernet/Wi-Fi router looks like these days. TP-Link’s Archer C7 dual-speed wireless router delivers 1,300 Mbps over the 5 GHz band and 450 Mbps...
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Teardown: Leviton ground fault circuit interrupter
GFCIs detect hazardous current paths to ground and ground-to-neutral faults. A teardown reveals they are relatively simple but have circuit details that can be tricky to figure out. Bathrooms,...
View ArticleVideo Teardown: Leviton Ground fault circuit interrupter
GFCIs detect hazardous current paths to ground and ground-to-neutral faults. They are relatively simple but have circuit details that can be tricky to figure out. In this short video, we go through the...
View ArticleVideo Teardown: HOME Ever Inc. E27 A19 60-W equivalent LED bulb
As part of a continuing series where we take perfectly good LED bulbs and turn them into junk, Design World Executive Editor Lee Teschler and Associate Editor Michelle DiFrangia analyze the circuitry...
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Teardown: Inside the Neurometrix Quell TENS device
A TENS device for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation wraps around the upper calf much like a wristwatch wraps around the wrist. Here are some of its operational secrets. A medical device...
View ArticleVideo Teardown: Inside the Quell TENS pain-relief stimulator
A medical device called a Quell performs what’s called transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on the lower leg. This technique is said to relieve diabetic pain. In this short video we delve into...
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Teardown: Anki Cozmo, distant relative of Vector
Cozmo is a palm-sized robot from San Francisco-based Anki, the same company that makes an intelligent racing robot system called Overdrive that we’ve A view of Cozmo’s front and side. torn down...
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