We’ve all been there before. It used to be a prized possession, but now it’s just an expensive brick! Electronics aren’t meant to last forever, but sometimes they crash on us a LOT quicker than they should. When you’ve skipped out on a longer warranty and your iPod, phone or other piece of technology appears to bite the dust, what do you do? Most of us will simply let the broken equipment sit in a drawer, collecting dust as an expensive and inefficient paperweight. But have you considered getting them fixed? There are a lot of great tinkerers out there, as well as professional shops that can help you out when you get in an electro-bind. Do the math – it’s almost ALWAYS going to be cheaper to get something repaired that simply buying a new item. Check online, on the street and in the back of your warranty books from various products. My digital SLR crashed on me about 2 months after the warranty expired. Rather than hitting the store, I hit a local electronics shop. Within a week they had replaced my sensor (something I could NEVER have done on my own) and I