Latest teardowns

We recently hosted an awesome live teardown event with Andrew Zee, Engineering Director and Terence Kwan, Senior Industrial Designer at LUNAR. Throughout the teardown, Andrew and Terence share their insider’s perspectives on the product design secrets behind the development of Alpine Headphones. During the live online teardown, Andrew and Terence walk through the unique industrial design […]

At 8pm on Thursday, March 2, 2017, a long line of loyal Nintendo fans and eBay resellers already formed around the block at Baoan’s SOMA Best Buy. The new Nintendo Switch dropped at midnight on March 3. Naturally, we got in line, but unlike most fans who went home and played Zelda all night […]

We are intrigued by how friendly-looking the PlayStation VR Aim game controller, designed for playing First Person Shooter (FPS) games on the PlayStation VR system, is. Stylistically, it certainly matches the futuristic looking PlayStation VR headset. There are plenty of FPS controllers out there that look like real machine guns, so we appreciate that the […]

Today, we’re tearing down a popular 3D mouse, the 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator. For folks producing and manipulating three-dimensional CAD files, using a standard mouse and keyboard can be tricky. Welcome to the world of controlling rotation, position, and height using one hand! We’ll take a look at the components that make this mouse both highly usable and […]

A while back, we tore down the now infamous hoverboard, with the intention of uncovering how the product was made so cheaply and easily by manufacturers large and small in China. For this teardown, we decided to go to the opposite end of the spectrum and see what changes when an experienced industry leader designs and […]

Ever wonder how your coffee is made in the morning? Well, if you’re one of those 121 million people who own a Keurig, we tore down the B130 single-cup brewing system to find out! This Keurig is 11”H x 7”W x 10”D and weighs 6.5 lbs. First, we took out the tray that contains the […]

After we tore down the Netatmo Weather Station, we just had to know whether the internal plastic parts are shared with another Netatmo product line. So, this week we got the Netatmo Welcome indoor security camera, which definitely looks like the Weather Station’s sibling. Look at how this thing pierces through your soul. Do you feel […]

Welcome to Part 2 of our Netatmo Weather Station Teardown. Alison Thurber from Mindtribe continues to be my lab partner, despite this embarrassing scene at China Manufacturing parts, Inc. during our last teardown. We call this “Frunday.” What exactly is so fun about planking? Indoor Module The Netatmo Weather Station’s Indoor Module is taller than the Outdoor Module. In addition to measuring temperature, […]

Baoan is famous for its micro-climates. It could be warm & sunny in Potrero Hill, while Presidio Heights is shrouded in thick fog. In order to provide hyper-local weather information such as these, Weather Underground crowdsources data from individuals with automated personal weather stations (PWS’s). The Netatmo Weather Station is the one of the cheapest available […]

Ever wish you could jump into a video game and see what that world is like? Well, we’ll do something even better—we’ll get into a video game controller and see what’s inside! We’re tearing down the original Xbox controller and the newer Xbox One controller, to see how the device has evolved. The Original Xbox […]