Author: Brett Venter

In a move that even people wearing VR headsets all day saw coming, Sony has confirmed the PlayStation VR 2. And, as with the reveal of the PlayStation 5 logo at CES 2020, that’s all the company is willing to let us see. Oh, the hardware exists. It’s real. It’ll eventually launch. And we even know what it does and which features it’ll include. But Sony doesn’t want anyone looking at it just yet, which is why all they’ve shown off is the logo. PlayStation VR 2: The Return of PSVR In addition to confirming the name (which we could…

If you think the farming world is exempt from technological innovation, think again. Besides farms-in-a-box or closed-loop farms, automation is also heading to the field. Which, arguably, takes the most exciting bit of farming out of farmer’s hands. But that’s not the point. Farming giant John Deere reckons it can see the future and that future includes less driving. Unless you’re one of the company’s Deere 8R tractors, that is. The company has used CES 2022 to show off its new fully-autonomous tractors, a product it has been punting since about 2019. It’s taken a few years to get it…

4K TVs used to be a pricy purchase. Now you can’t turn around without tripping over a decent budget set. Skyworth’s 50SUD9300F, as the unwieldy product designation suggests, is a 50in 4K TV with a less-than-R10k price. Skyworth’s TVs have almost all adopted Android as their operating system. The ones that don’t repack Google’s mobile OS are all ‘dumb’ TVs. You’re probably looking for something with a little smarts, though. The SUD9300F should deliver what you need — but it has its fiddly bits. Some assembly required Happily, things don’t really get fiddly until you’ve actually assembled this TV. This…

BlackBerry, we’re sorry to say, is going away. That’s been happening for a while now and in varying degrees, but those folks with a death-grip on their physical BlackBerry hardware? Yeah, your time is up. Software support for BlackBerry software officially ends today, meaning you should have replaced your device last week to avoid service interruptions. The last BlackBerry More specifically, legacy services for BlackBerry 7.1 OS (or earlier), BlackBerry 10, and BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 are coming to a close today, 4 January. This doesn’t mean that your device will stop working immediately, however. But it does mean that…

Just before the business world took a few days off at the end of December, Apple was awfully close to a world first. The company was closing in on a $3 trillion market cap valuation, which would make it the world’s fifth-largest economy, just after Germany. Well, it’s happened. And then unhappened, just as quickly. Apple yesterday became the first company to be worth more than $3 trillion, but it also uncrossed that milestone by the end of the day. An Apple a day Yesterday, 3 January, was the first day of trading for the year. Apple, during the day,…

It’s 2022, which means that we’re staring down the barrel of a Samsung Galaxy S22 announcement. It’s going to happen, that’s never been in doubt. Unless Samsung’s suddenly started hating money, there will be a new flagship smartphone out soon. Usually, Samsung tries to take the lead, so we’re expecting something official either this month or early in February. Last year, the company took its swing on 14 January. That’s just late enough that folks have woken up from December, but too soon for anyone else to be hogging headlines. So what can we expect from the Galaxy S22? Well,…

It’s the last day of 2021, which means that a) 2022 is right around the corner and b) you’re probably not going to read this until the hangover’s worn off at least a little. That’s fine. We’re just doing a little prognosticating about the year in tech to come. We don’t need alcoholic beverages to see into the future, though it does help from time to time. These are mostly guesses, in the same way analysts and stockbrokers are guessing what’s about to happen next. But we really wouldn’t be shocked to find that we’re not far off the mark,…

Everybody loves Fujifilm’s Instax cameras. If you don’t like them, you either don’t have a soul, or you lead a very solitary existence. Which is fine, but you’d like ’em of you went out more. Just sayin’. But, for a certain sort of person, instant cameras aren’t perfect. This is where the Instax Link Wide, and other products like it, come in. A boring box The Instax Link Wide is, in a nutshell, an instant camera that’s missing the camera bit. Another way to describe it is as a very specialised Bluetooth printer. But that doesn’t sound nearly as sexy,…

Choosing the best tech at any point in time isn’t easy. There are loads of points to consider — price, actual usefulness, personal preference… okay, not that last one so much. Not usually. At Stuff, we assess tech based on a much more objective set of criteria than most. Despite what people on YouTube would have you believe, it’s extremely possible to be objective about technology. But that also denies the fact that we (as people who spend all year surrounded by this stuff) might find some objectively less-than-stellar tech fun or interesting. And that’s really the point of these…

It’s entirely possible that you’re looking for a decent set of in-ears but aren’t looking to pay more than R2,000 for a set. That used to severely limit your options, with decent ‘buds starting around R3,000 and getting better from there. That’s changed. It’s now possible to snag some great in-ears for just R1,600 — the new Jabra Elite 3 earbuds are just dying for you to try them out. Jabra is a Stuff favourite. Their Elite range, both in- and over-ears, are consistently excellent. But the other consistent feature is the price – excellent audio generally costs several thousand…