All Your Wearables Have One Glaring Weakness. What Can You Do About It?
Key takeaways
- I didn't until I was already fingertips deep into performing open-heart surgery on the Google Pixel Watch 4 and realized that the implement a plastic stick with one pointy end and one flat end was already in my hand.
- I was following i Fixit's instructions to try to do a full screen replacement on the watch from the comfort of my own home, and spudging, it turned out, was a key part of the process.
- But no sooner had I got to grips with it, when I suddenly had to swap it for a pair of tweezers with pincers sharper than scorpion tails.
Do you know what a spudger is? I didn't until I was already fingertips deep into performing open-heart surgery on the Google Pixel Watch 4 and realized that the implement a plastic stick with one pointy end and one flat end was already in my hand.
I was following i Fixit's instructions to try to do a full screen replacement on the watch from the comfort of my own home, and spudging, it turned out, was a key part of the process. The spudger is used for pressing, prying, pulling and coaxing the watch's components in and out of place without damaging the metal elements.
But no sooner had I got to grips with it, when I suddenly had to swap it for a pair of tweezers with pincers sharper than scorpion tails. I wielded them clumsily while trying to peel off a sticker holding the screen connector together. The instructions warned me that in extracting this well-secured scrap of tape, I must be careful not to damage it.