Recycling

Companies know that many parents don’t have a lot of time to shop for their kids new outfits—which is why subscription services designed to make the process more automated and less time consuming are flourishing. Brands like Rockets of Awesome, Kidsbox, and S…

I’m on a fabulously stylish purple seven-gear bicycle, made by a Swedish startup called Vélosophy. The bike epitomizes minimalist Scandinavian design, with clean lines and sleek wheels. You would never guess that it was made from thousands of old aluminum Nes…

These are not your average rings that sink to the bottom of the pool for kids to bring back up. The goal is to go through the rings like an obstacle course and either see how many you can get through or who can get through them the fastest. These…

Materials & tools: at least one old skateboard, jigsaw or bandsaw, sandpaper, hairdryer, driller, permanent marker, tape, triangle ruler, pencil, pricker,12 short screws, clockwork, 3 long screws, screwdriver,

Is any item more symbolic of our modern, disposable culture than the single-use coffee cup? In March 2016, they were vilified in celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s “War on Waste” campaign, when he drove a bus through London covered in 10,000 coffee …

You dont have to replace your iPhones battery at the Apple Store if you dont want toa $69 fix from Apple if your newer iPhone is out of warranty. If you do purchase a battery elsewhere, however, your iPhone is going to warn you that your new replacement batte…

Exclusive Transport for London's online Oyster travel smartcard system has been accessed by miscreants using customer credentials, The Reg can reveal, as the transport authority keeps the website offline for a second day. Some Oyster customers have had their…

Apple has activated a dormant software lock that effectively kneecaps third-party replacement batteries on some newer models of iPhone, according to a report from iFixIt on Wednesday, by disabling access to battery health data unless the replacement has been …

Right to Repair advocates continue to lobby the U.S. government, arguing that large tech companies like Apple are monopolizing repairs of consumer electronics in order to preserve profits, reports Axios. Image: iFixit.com In testimony before the U.S. House …

A man in Almeria, Spain, disposed of an old fridge by throwing it down a steep incline. Thinking it amusing, he had video recorded of the act and posted to social media. It went viral, the authorities found out about it, and he has now been fined—and ordered …