Tech-App-endectomies

As you may have already noticed, I enjoy doing Prying Eyes teardown projects I have another one coming in Thursday's issue of EDN (and no, I'm not going to spill the beans early and tell you all about it, so you'll just have to wait and check it out when it goes live). Until then, satisfy your hunger for tech-internals details with the following dissections of this holiday shopping season's hottest toys:

• The Apple iPod shuffle (2^nd Generation) (and its demise)
• The Apple Intel-based XServe
• The Microsoft Xbox 360 HD DVD Peripheral (another teardown)
• The Microsoft Zune (another teardown, by the mighty "bunnie") (capacity-bumped)
• The Nintendo Wii (another teardown) (and its demise)
• The Sony PlayStation 3 (Slashdot's take) (another teardown) (video too!) (and its demise)
• The Sony Reader

Disposable income sufficient to justify smashing a $600 game console, which could instead be resold for many times its purchase price….a distinctly first-world behavioural aberration….