All Your Wearables Have One Glaring Weakness. What Can You Do About It?

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With helpful DIY instructions and some pointy tools, I fixed a broken smartwatch on my own. And if I can do it, so can you.

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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 iFixit'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...

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