Apple may be all about being green lately, but throwaway culture has made it so that anytime a gadget becomes less-than-perfect, we're frothing at the mouth for excuses to buy a new one. Dead pixels?

I've got an olde tyme iPod and it's slowly giving up the ghost, rebooting itself randomly (and leaving me to flatten and fully re-sync a couple of times a year to get it to behave). I know you can ...