Before the iPhone and before BlackBerry, there was the Palm Pilot. Known as the Atari 2600 of PDAs, the Palm Pilot was considered revolutionary in its heyday. We’ve rescued this model just so we can crack him open and see what this time capsule of circuitry looks like on the inside.

In this TechRepublic teardown gallery, John Lee cracks open the Samsung BlackJack II smartphone, available from AT&T.

In this TechRepublic teardown gallery, John Lee cracks open the BlackBerry Curve for a look at the hardware inside this smartphone.

We're going to crack open this surprisingly functional toy robot and make darn sure that Kenny Baker isn't trapped in there.

Let's see how Master Replicas' craftsmen were able to reverse-engineer Darth Vader's Lightsaber.