Author: Brett Venter

If you’ve ever wanted to go fully retro with your photography, the OPT100 Neo Film camera could be just what you need to get a serious advantage in the Hipster Olympics. Sure, you could whip out one of Fuji’s vintage-inspired Instax cameras at the family gathering, but nobody else will manage to compete with a 35mm roll of film that shoots photos. And not just because they’re a bugger to get hold of, even if that is also the case. The OPT100 Neo Film is being sold in Japan, ostensibly as a toy because… well, a closer look at the…

First it was the Death Stranding exoskeleton; now we’ve got a pair of Cyberpunk 2077-themed XR glasses to drool over. A series of developer errors marred CD Projekt RED’s open-world RPG, but a lengthy series of fixes ultimately resulted in it being one of the best games of its type ever made. Hopefully, this new partnership with a company called Viture won’t be nearly as difficult to iron out. If you want a pair of Night City-themed smart specs, you’ll want to act fast. The Cyberpunk 2077 Luma Cyber XR glasses are being limited to a run of 10,000 units…

Huawei, like its competitors, has become easy to predict. The company’s new folding Mate X7 had a Chinese unveiling, followed by its extremely recent EMEA reveal in Dubai. Next up is a South African event where we’ll find out exactly what the folding handset (and its companion devices) will cost. In the meantime, here’s what’s coming to Africa. Briefly, we can expect the Huawei Mate X7, its newest FreeClip 2 headphones, the MatePad 11.5 S upgrade, and the latest Ultimate Design watch from the Chinese company. Doubtless, we’ll have info on the Mate 80 lineup for Africa in short order…

No, DJI hasn’t released a mini-drone that zips around while focused on your crotch (though there’s probably a market for it — someone see if Leonid Radvinsky will place an order). Instead, the drone maker has announced its new FlyCart 100 drone, a significantly more boring affair. Unless, that is, you’re in the logistics business. The idea of drone-based package delivery isn’t new, but most projects seem to involve building the hardware specifically for a given company. Enhanced verticals, you see? But having a major manufacturer create a purpose-built drone for sale suggests that the delivery method is about to…

It’s easy to argue that the Need for Speed series was at its height during the heady days of Underground and Underground 2, right about the same time as the Fast and Furious franchise was all about cars going fast and less about drifting a Pontiac Fiero in space. If you’d like to travel back to that time, even in your crappy stock standard vehicle, you should check out the custom NFS Underground 2 minimap being designed by Garage Tinkering. It replicates the iconic circular map from Underground 2, but tracks a real vehicle across UK roads. Real Need for…

It’s not just South Africa going all out for festive travellers. International companies like Uber are also hoping to up the convenience factor for people going away on their holidays. The latest from the ride-share all is the introduction of kiosks at (some) airports. It’s little more than a tablet and a card reader, but it’s intended to let you snag a ride even if your international roaming hasn’t kicked in yet. Of course, that means more money for Uber and less need for interaction with real people. Still, if you’re in the States and don’t have a compatible data…

Thought you’d seen the last of Skyrim, had you? Until Bethesda gets around to releasing The Elder Scrolls VI, the action RPG that first saw daylight in 2011 will continue to be released. Case in point: Todd Howard’s money printer has just launched on Nintendo’s Switch 2. There’s good news and bad news, depending on whether you’ve previously bought the title from Nintendo’s storefront. Those who skipped over the last edition who merely want the Switch 2 version are on the hook for R1,030, while anyone who bought the original Switch edition will pay less. How much less, we can’t…

It took a while for us to get here. Once upon a time, Google was the very best internet search engine on the planet. That wasn’t hard to do in the 1990s, but it managed to retain its position right up until it placed current Chief Technologist Prabhakar Raghavan in charge of ads and commerce at the company in 2018. It wasn’t all Raghavan’s fault. The company had been in a downward slide for some time before that, but that point marks the moment when Google explicitly cared more about money than about making a decent product. The search giant’s…

Something like this was always inevitable. South African Tourism, in conjunction with a company called GuideGeek, has launched Siyanda, a tourist-specific AI that will “[provide] instant answers to any travel or tourism related questions about the country.” It’s hardly the first upgrade for the upcoming tourist season, but it’s easily the most buzzwordy. GuideGeek, which specialises in travel AI, reckons that Siyanda will “support travelers seeking authentic, vibrant, and joy-filled journeys across South Africa.” Specifically, North American travellers, but there’s no reason why you couldn’t use it yourself. Who knows? You might learn something about South Africa. Ask Siyanda?  As…

Some ideas make perfect sense. One of those ideas is, weirdly, putting samurai in a space setting. Sol Shogunate is an excellent (and brand new) example of just this, though we’d also have accepted a game revolving around Frank Herbet’s Ginaz Swordmasters. Still, this one — the creation of a new developer called Chaos Manufacturing — looks to have potential. The aesthetics are something we’ve seen before, a weird hybrid of PlatinumGames’ Vanquish (notably the powered armour) and the frenetic combat (and female protagonist) from Shift Up’s Stellar Blade. It works. If you’re up for a more vertical version of…