Which soldering iron is best? Today’s best soldering irons all have a few of the same features, but depending on your budget, your needs and what kind of soldering you’ll be doing, the model you end ...

Curling irons, hand warmers, coffee mugs and other consumer products that rely on heat to do their jobs are about to get a makeover thanks to an innovative technology from a tiny Bellevue company.

Every true tech geek worth his or her weight in solder and flux has been foaming at the mouth over a new infomercial on TV. It’s for a device called Cold Heat: a soldering iron that reportedly stays ...

iFixit is renowned for giving you the tools and knowledge to fix electronics yourself—saving you money and scratching your DIY itch. Now it’s creating the portable soldering iron to end all soldering ...

If you have a keen interest in electronics or are a do-it-yourself enthusiast, you absolutely need to have a few tools and accessories at your disposal at all times. One of them is a soldering iron.

Here at the Strategist, we like to think of ourselves as crazy (in the good way) about the stuff we buy, but as much as we’d like to, we can’t try everything. Which is why we have People’s Choice, in ...

Soldering is one of the most useful skills you can learn in the DIY world, especially for repairing your electronics. But a lot of soldering irons are inadequate or inconvenient, so iFixit released ...

In the 1800s and early 1900s soldering irons were still heated by flame. The large copper tips on the irons were slow to heat and would at best store heat for only a few minutes. It was not uncommon ...