Nike recently introduced a wearable device called the Nike+ FuelBand which can track your fitness data throughout the day. It’s basically a tiny computer in a wristband with a handful of sensors and a very limited set of functions. One question that Nike didn’t really address when introducing the FuelBand last month was how it managed to cram the electronics…

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The Motorola XYBOARD 8.2 tablet recently started shipping — but if you’re one of the first people to plunk down $400 or more for Motorola’s latest tablet, odds are you’re not exactly interested in ripping it to pieces to see what lies on the inside. Fortunately that’s where the FCC comes in. The XYBOARD 8.2 passed through Federal Communications website…

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The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet may be a shiny new 7 inch tablet with a dual core processor, but the tablet sure looks a lot like the 2010 NOOK Color. The new model uses the same case design as the original, but comes with more RAM, more storage, and a faster processor. But the folks at iFixit have discovered that…

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The Amazon Kindle Fire is a 7 inch tablet with a 1024 x 600 pixel display, a 1 Ghz dual core CPU, and 8GB of storage. But you can find all that out by looking at the product listing on Amazon. The folks at iFixit had some slightly tougher-to-answer questions, like: what happens if you rip the things to shreds?…

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The Asus Zenbook UX21 is one of the first ultrabooks to hit the streets — and the first ultrabook to feature an 11.6 inch display. It’s considered an ultrbaook because the laptop weighs less than 3 pounds, has the latest Intel processor, and features a solid state disk, quick boot technology, and a few other goodies. But what does it…

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The Sony Tablet S is an Android tablet with a 9.4 inch display, an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, and an unusual wedge-shaped design. It’s been on sale in the US since last week, so it was just a matter of time before someone cracked the tablet open to see what makes it tick. The folks at TechRepublic did…

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The HP TouchPad doesn’t go on sale in the US until July 1st, but the folks at TechRepublic managed to get their hands on a pre-release model… and then they proceeded to rip it apart. Tech Republic reports that the tablet uses standard screws which makes it easier to disassemble than the APple iPad, but not as easy as some…

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I just took my Samsung Series 5 Chromebook review unit out of the box a few hours ago, and one of the first things I noticed as that while there are a few screws on the bottom of the laptop, there’s nothing resembling an access panel for easy RAM or storage upgrades. The battery isn’t meant to be easily removed…

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The G-Slate from LG and T-Mobile first showed up at the FCC web site way back in March. But at the time all we got to see were label locations and some test results. Nwo the FCC has published some additional G-Slate documents showing what the tablet looks like when you rip it to pieces. Not surprisingly… it looks like…

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The Lenovo LePad Android tablet isn’t due out in the US until later this year, but it’s already available in China. The tablet features a 10.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display, a 1.3 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and runs Google Android 2.2. And now thanks to the folks at Chinese site IMP3, we know what the tablet looks like…

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You didn’t really think that a tablet which has received as much hype as the BlackBerry PlayBook would launch without somebody coming along and ripping the thing to bits and posting photos on the internet, did you? Of course not. This time the folks at Chipworks and iFixit are battling for the rights to cry of “First!” Chipworks is a firm…

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The Lenovo ThinkPad X120e is a business class thin and light laptop with an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display and an AMD E-350 dual core processor. As YouTube user wussyib discovered, it’s also relatively easy to upgrade. It might not be as easy to remove the back panel on the X120e as on the HP Pavilion dm1z (which…

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