As we batten down the hatches and empty every grocery store in sight (but politely — we’re not panic-buying at all, promise), it’s also time to look at ways to occupy your time at home. There’s no traffic, you’re going to find yourself running out of work (assuming you’re working), or perhaps getting a little cabin-fevery. Here are a few ways to keep yourself busy.
Remember that scene in The Dark Knight where Batman really annoyed Morgan Freeman by turning on a city-wide surveillance system implanted in every phone made by Bruce Wayne’s company? Keep that scene in mind as we tell you about FluSense, an AI-powered bit of hardware capable of monitoring coughs and the spread of the coronavirus — and other diseases. The portable surveillance device is the creation of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who made it to “…detect coughing and crowd size in real time, then analyze the data to directly monitor flu-like illnesses and influenza trends”, according to…
So you’re suddenly struck with a need to work at home, but are lacking some of the essential components that make up a home office? Not to worry, folks, Stuff and Epson have you covered. In a purely figurative sense, obviously — we’re not about to get too close.
We have been expecting some market strangeness thanks to the lovely chap spending time in everyone’s heads these day: COVID-19. Expectation has become reality now, as the number-crunchers over at Strategy Analytics have got figures for us concerning smartphone shipments in February 2020. It’s… not fantastic.
It’s everyone’s worst nightmare (apparently). Not massive illnesses and clogged hospitals. Not a lack of essential foods. Nope, apparently in the mini-apocalypse, we’re mostly concerned with not being able to wipe our bottoms with the fluffy stuff. But do you really need 231 rolls of toilet paper at home? As usual, the internet provides us with all the information we crave. Dare you find out how long your bottom will stay clean? DON’T. PANIC. Website homemuchtoiletpaper.com has the answers you should seek before you head out and do any more panic buying. Or your first round of panic buying. Or…
Even if you’re resistant (and some of you are gonna be), eventually the change will roll out to everyone anyway so you might as well submit to the will of the Almighty Zuckerberg now (Long May His Style Be Unblockable)
Anyone who is able to work from home should be working from home. We know this. You know this. Your boss… may not know this. That’s a South African cultural thing and hopefully it’s shifting right now. If that’s the case, though, perhaps don’t let your boss catch you reading this. If you’re already working at home, though — read on.
The ladies and gents who make up Stuff spend loads of time using headphones. We all love to talk and sometimes, in order to get anything done, the noise has to be blocked out. Long story short, it takes quite a bit to impress us on the headphone front. We’ve used plenty of ’em and many come short. Samsung’s Galaxy Buds+, however, are impressive from the outset. Slick as ever And not just because they’re pretty — although the Galaxy Buds+ are a rather attractive pair. The smooth capsule-shaped black charging case gives the Buds an almost medical feel –…
Pretty much every South African event for the foreseeable future has been cancelled by the coronavirus outbreak but it’s always sad to get confirmation of that fact. Comic Con Africa’s Cape Town event has been cancelled, and there’s no follow-up planned this year. Well, bugger.
The world is changing, whether we like it or not. Social events around the world are being postponed or cancelled and the shape of ‘normal’ is altering. But people around the world are not letting that get them down. Take Spanish soccer teams Real Betis and Sevilla, who were due to play a La Liga match against each other this past weekend at the Servilla derby. Coronavirus, obviously, put paid to that idea. Choose your champion(‘s league) https://twitter.com/BorjaIglesias9/status/1239280764988133381 Instead, the teams decided to settle matters another way — a player vs. player match on FIFA 20, using the digital versions…
