Author: Brett Venter

Parents looking for more convenient access to the PlayStation 4 and 5’s parental control settings (you did know those were there, right?) can now download PlayStation Family, Sony’s new app for helping “parents set up and manage their children’s gaming experience on PlayStation – straight from their supported mobile device.” Many of the controls Sony’s new app offers are already present on the company’s consoles, like playtime and age restrictions. Moving these to a paired mobile device like a tablet or smartphone makes sense. Kids do like to play games when the ‘rentals aren’t at home, and PlayStation Family provides…

Amazon is the latest company to have a set of augmented reality glasses in development, according to a report from The Information. Amazon’s glasses, known internally as Jayhawk, are intended for the company’s customers, with a separate project for its employees also in development. This second set of glasses, codenamed Amelia, is specifically for delivery drivers working for Amazon. These glasses will (somehow) speed up deliveries. These could be ready as soon as the middle of 2026, claim the unnamed sources who spoke to The Information. Don’t jaywalk, Jayhawk instead The consumer-focused glasses will have something in common with Meta’s…

Content creators looking to get serious about their craft could do worse than the newly announced Canon EOS C50 cinema camera. The Japanese company has launched its newest video specialist with at least one feature intended to set it apart from the rest — the ability to shoot vertical and widescreen video at the same time. That’s probably just to grab your attention so you’ll look at the rest of the weapon loadout. The EOS C50 stuffs serious video smarts into a relatively compact 670-gram frame. If you must capture stills with it, those will happen at 32MP (6,960 x…

Aston Martin, as a brand, is synonymous with British engineering, James Bond, and high-speed performance. Also, video game gear. It makes perfect sense, then, that the company has teamed up with another British brand, Egg. Egg, as you may not be aware, manufactures baby gear. And now, as the “official stroller partner of Aston Martin”, the companies intend to sell anyone with enough money the “ultimate luxury stroller.” What makes it the ultimate stroller, you ask? That’s an excellent question. Aston Martin, baby If you believe the marketing lingo, the new Aston Martin Egg3 stroller embodies Aston’s “passion for exceptional…

The first vinyl LP was pressed by Columbia Records in 1948, incidentally the same year that Ozzy Osbourne was born. Now, in 2025, there’s Tiny Vinyl, a new four-inch vinyl record format. The Blizzard of Ozz passed his entire 77-year span without seeing the LP get really, really tiny. Again. See, Japan launched a three-inch vinyl format in 2003 that was (briefly) resurrected in 2019. Tiny Vinyl hopes to stand out by offering four-inch records to all and sundry. The stated reason for its creation is to make a format that is “more aligned with how artists are making and…

Don’t get too excited about your first look at Samsung’s Galaxy S26 smartphone lineup. While renders of the handset’s Pro, Ultra, and Edge models have turned up, and they do appear to show differences in these models’ cameras, they’re cosmetic. There’s no real sense of what sort of camera hardware is coming. But it does appear that Samsung is heading back in time a little, bringing back the little island its camera sensors used to live on. The Galaxy S25 lineup featured the sensors as standalone protrusions. This look at Samsung’s next products suggests that’s going away. Eying the Galaxy…

We never thought we’d be discussing the role of sperm cells in microrobotics, but it’s 2025, so it’s probably about time. Scientists from the University of Twente in the Netherlands have published a paper in Nature titled Sperm cell empowerment: X-ray-guided magnetic fields for enhanced actuation and localization of cytocompatible biohybrid microrobots. If that’s all a bit much to take in, the folks behind this fresh load of innovation reckon they’ve discovered a way to turn the humble wiggly tadpole thing into a medical delivery system. Of course, that’s already what it does, albeit in a very specialised manner (it’s…

Vivo’s X-series smartphones are typically fantastic slabs of camera hardware, and the upcoming X300 isn’t expected to be any different. But where do you go when you’ve already got a 200MP camera sensor stuck inside the main array? You add another one, of course. The still-murky smartphone series will launch in vanilla, Pro, and Ultra guises, with the latter possibly sporting dual 200MP rear sensors, along with a 50MP ultrawide lens to round out the set. X300 ready for launch? Why you’d need 500 megapixels of camera power in a single phone — the X300 Ultra will supposedly also feature…

There are literal tons of Star Wars products in storefronts all over the world, covering everything from George Lucas’ setting to Darth Vader, everyone’s favourite villain. But there are some things that just can’t be sold at retail. One of those things is the Sith Lord’s lightsaber. The real one. The actual prop used in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Search your wallet, Luke The folks at PropstoreAuction turned up the item, which was constructed from part of a camera flash bulb from the 1950s — specifically, a Micro Precision Products Microflash — and put it…

The e-reader battlefield features relatively few combatants, but there’s a new challenger on the horizon. The DuRoBo Krono is the latest device to emerge in the quest to replace dead-tree books with something more technological. Revealed at IFA 2025 in Berlin and currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter, the e-reader seems to have loads going for it. Literally, if we’re talking about storage. 128GB of space is packed into its frame, more than enough to carry every book you’ll ever read (possibly — some readers are truly voracious). There’s another reason for all that space, however. Defeating Kronos The Krono isn’t…