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The Broken Kindle Problem: An Aid Program Runs Into Trouble
Nearly half of the e-readers sent to schools in sub-Saharan Africa end up broken. Given the right tools and instructions, could schoolkids learn to fix Kindles?
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Where 4,000,000 Phones a Year Go to Be Resurrected
A visit to the warehouse in which gadgets donated to Cell Phones for Soliders and other charity programs get a second life.
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A Visit to the Only American Mine for Rare Earth Metals
iFixit cofounder Kyle Wiens visits the only source of rare earth metals in North America -- and one of the few places to get these materials outside China.
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Inside a Water-Pump Repair Shop in Kenya
Kikuyu farmers would be in serious trouble when their water pumps broke down were it not for Simon Njugi
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Meet Saleh, Egypt's Master Car Mechanic
An adventure in Herefyeen, a car-repair district on the outskirts of Cairo
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Political Tensions Heat Up Cairo, But Repairmen Carry On
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Why Fixers Will Save Our Planet
Kyle Wiens, founder of iFixit, is leading a team of journalists on a documentary trip in Africa to meet the community of electronics technicians who fix and remake the world's discarded electronics. Here, he describes the inspiration for the trip.