Author: Brett Venter

It’s been some time since Sony gave the world its WF-1000XM5 earbuds, which means that the WF-1000XM6 in-ears are due. Just how ‘due’ has been indicated by the still-unofficial buds appearing online in surprising detail. An online retailer has detailed Sony’s upcoming headphones, a misstep that was captured by folks over at Reddit. Some of the feature set and images of the gadget were outed, giving us a fair overview of what Sony has coming down the pipeline. Wascally WF-1000XM6 The known features for the Sony WF-1000XM6s are those you could have guessed with a fair shot at being correct.…

There’s too much tech released every year for Stuff to get to it all immediately. That’s why you’re seeing 2024’s baseline Amazon Kindle appearing here in 2026. We hadn’t seen it yet, so we couldn’t test it before. But it’s here, in a fetching green shade Amazon has chosen to call Matcha, and we’ve had a chance to play. Our basic opinion of the Kindle range, this device included, hasn’t changed. Amazon’s hardware is unmatched when it comes to ereaders, and that’s even true of this R3,000 basic model. The American company’s software, however, grows ever more obnoxious. When you…

If you’ve been wondering how Xiaomi’s SU7 EV, specifically the Ultra variant, performs, but aren’t keen on waiting for the new Chinese EV to land in South Africa, you’re in luck. Provided you have a PlayStation 5 and a copy of Gran Turismo 7, anyway. Xiaomi has succeeded in adding its 1,500-horsepower electric vehicle to Sony’s driving simulator, where it’ll give you a taste of how the vehicle handles the road. It’s not quite the same as actually driving one, but it might come close. Sony even made a movie about the game’s accuracy (which heavily involved Nissans). SU7, meet…

DJI’s little Neo 2 drone launched a relatively short while back, but we’ve already got a decent idea of what the Chinese company is doing next. The drone-maker’s next two flyers are the DJI Lito 1 and Lite X1, according to certifications passed by the FCC in the States. There’s even a timeline for the two drones to launch. They’re expected to land in the second and third quarters of this year, with full reveals for the flying camera hardware happening closer to the time. DJI casts the Lito The two drones are expected to replace DJI’s existing ‘Mini’ lineup,…

Huawei intends to launch a new-generation running watch, though the company hasn’t quite said what it will entail. The information about the watch, the first since the unveiling of its Watch GT Runner in 2021, comes via an announcement that the Chinese entity has partnered up with marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge and the dsm-firmenich Running Team. It’s mentioned almost as an aside, which you’d expect from a release talking about human people. Huawei is “set to unveil a cutting-edge professional running watch,” its first in five years. While the company is vague, it’s also looking to impress anyone in the…

We’ve seen smart watches and smart rings. Rogbid, a Chinese company, has combined both of those things into a single device with its Fusion. Aptly named, the smartringwatch-thing will set buyers back R800 (shipping and taxes not included). For your money, you’re getting one of those little ring watches — even Casio makes a few of those — but instead of an LCD or analogue face, you’ll have a somewhat smarter screen on your chosen digit. A digital digit display, if you will. Fusion, ha! There’s actual tech inside the Rogbid Fusion, though it’s very, very tiny. There’s a 0.49in…

Modern laptops feature fewer and fewer ports. Whether you think that’s a conspiracy by Big Tech to sell you more peripherals or not, RCT will at least sell you the solution to the whole ‘not enough ports’ problem. Even better, they’ll be as affordable as possible while doing so. We had three of the company’s products at the Stuff offices — the RCT PA-GAN100W (or the 100W Charging Travel Kit), the SD-11 (a twelve-in-one USB-C hub), and the DS-GN601C (a six-in-one USB-C hub). Much like printers, if you need one (or more) of these, you’ll need them. No amount of…

Meta’s head, Mark Zuckerberg, provided his new vision of the technology future in the company’s latest earnings call. Specifically, the head of the world’s largest social network believes that smart glasses are the way things are trending. Conveniently for Meta, the company happens to have a large, commercially viable division making smart glasses. This isn’t the first time Zuckerberg has made similar pronouncements, of course. Back when the company rebranded from Facebook to Meta, the looming future was closely tied to augmented and virtual reality headsets, with the metaverse a seeming (in Zuck’s mind, at least) inevitability. Zuckerberg looks ahead…

Some people buy computers, others make the hardware they’ve always needed. The creator of the CyberPlug, a person known as PickentCode, is the latter sort. And the result, a portable computer designed to integrate components via an embedded breadboard, is something we never knew we needed in our lives. Sadly, these are unlikely to wind up at retail. A home project, the CyberPlug is in its third generation after the first two “had issues that made them unpleasant to use.” The components for making one of your own are, happily, easy to get and not all that expensive. CyberPlug that…

Epson’s EcoTank L8050 printer is an older unit — it’s been around for some time — but it’s still comparatively unusual, in that it’s just a printer. There’s no scan or copy function, which we’re used to seeing from Epson’s EcoTank lineup. It just accepts paper and spits out… paper with stuff on. That paper varied, with the L8050 particularly rated for photo printing. That’s at least part of the reason why you’ll get six ink shades as opposed to the usual CMYK quartet we’re used to seeing in home printers. There are two extra shades — Light Cyan and…