Author: Brett Venter

[youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPTIXldrq3Q”] How do you test whether your driving assists really work? Like, really, really work? The way that Hyundai have taken is to put a bunch of their Genesis vehicles into a line, let their drivers abandon their cars one by one with the assists turned on (onto the back of a passing truck) and then let the line of vehicles follow each other down the road. As if that isn’t enough, the lead car has the driver remain while blindfolded, with his hands off the steering wheel. And, to complete this stunt-drive, the truck pulls in front of…

If you are one of those folks lucky enough to have a DJI Phantom 2 Vision or Phantom 2 Vision+ drone, you’re never going to lose it. DJI have launched an updated version of the Android and iOS apps used to control the flying marvel which adds a whole new feature, called Ground Station. Ground Station is an interesting addition, one that allows users to pre-plot a flight with either of the two high-end drone that can have up to sixteen waypoints. The company has also given the drone the ability to ‘Go Home’ at the touch of a button,…

Wildly popular miniature computer, the Raspberry Pi, has competition on the way. That would be the HummingBoard, a mini-PC that has the same form factor as the UK-founded Pi, which is aimed at the same hobbyist market as the most recognisable small computer available these days. The ARM-powered HummingBoard is available for pre-order from a company called SolidRun. It’ll run users between $45 (R490) and $100 (R1,080), not counting shipping and there are three models available from SolidRun for users to toy with. The base model, the HummingBoard-i1, has the fewest features and ships with a mere 512MB of RAM while…

[youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsi3bIHlKv4″] Tetris is everywhere. It has released on just about every platform in existence, up to and including cellular phones and the sides of buildings and it’s just getting another outing. On a t-shirt. The brainchild of one Marc Kerger, the Tetris t-shirt is a home-made project so you’re not going to be able to buy one of these in a store. But, it’s just possible that you could make one yourself. The garment-based game was placed onto the shirt in the video above with a bank of LEDs and controllers on the underside of the shirt, with the gameplay…

Everyone likes toast at some point. Maybe you’re feeling ill and toast and eggs are all you can eat, maybe you just have some old bread in the house and you feel like something crunchy to munch. But everyone feels the attraction of a perfect piece of toast. Unfortunately everyone’s version of ‘perfect’ varies, veering from ‘warm bread’ to ‘encased in carbon’ and the typical toaster doesn’t allow for that perfect setting. Unless you’re watching it with an eagle-eye. Until now, that is. A British company called Dualit has two new toasters with more intelligence baked in than is possessed…

It’s that time of the week again, where we announce the winner of our current competition. This time around, we’re giving away the first of two DStv Walkas, watching the FIFA World Cup on-the-go, for the use of. Before we get to the good stuff, as always, here is some detail on how the competition draw works. Winner’s names are drawn randomly by a computer that has been fed everyone’s names and has decided which one tastes the best. Once the name has been drawn, the entry is examined to see whether the question has been answered correctly and, if…

DStv and Stuff, when we’re not playing with gadgetry or keeping tabs on the latest football scores, are giving away the second of two DStv Walka handheld units so that one more lucky winner will be able to watch the Brazilian FIFA World Cup final wherever they happen to be. Whether that location is appropriate is wholly up to the winner – we’re not taking any blame for that. As with all of our competitions, becoming eligible is up to you unless you happen to work for Stuff Magazine in some capacity. We’ve already had to disqualify a few of the…

Some fresh details concerning Microsoft’s apparently-incoming wearable device, coming by way of WinSuperSite, have surfaced (pun intended). According to sources who have spoke to that website’s Paul Thurrott, Microsoft is going to be taking aim at the fitness market rather than a straight shot at the smartwatch arena with their wearable. The wearable, which still hasn’t been named, will consist mostly of fitness apps and functions – along the lines of Samsung’s Gear Fit, Jawbone’s UP24 and FitBit’s range of products. It will, according to the sources, have some notification features nonetheless, so it’s a crossover sort of device. The…

Now there’s a thing. The Associated Press, according to reports, is planning to automate the process of creating news articles for the press service by using algorithms, essentially allowing for news content to be written by robots. Unlike other industries that see robots taking over tasks, this won’t mean any job cuts for the AP. Instead, they’ll just be increasing the amount of content produced by the service while retaining human reporters for the complicated stuff that can’t be done using an algorithm. According to AP Managing Editor Lou Ferrara, “If anything, we are doubling down on the journalism we will do…

There is a Kickstarter that hopes to put a small draft machine into your home, so that you can have a permanent supply of beer on tap. Now that we have your full attention, meet SYNEK. [youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6GoiWGQPbQ”] SYNEK is supposed to be a beer dispenser, one that is easy to fill and which will allow users to hang onto a batch of beer for an extended period of time, that lives on a countertop. SYNEK consists of bags, which are apparently easily filled, that are able to hold and keep quantities of beer. Each of these refillable bags are used, instead…