Author: Brett Venter

[youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFK96m24vko”] Maybe you’ve heard of Project CARS, a racing simulator from Slightly Mad Studios that is looking to be the most attractive title ever created in its genre. The company itself describes it as the “…most authentic, beautiful, intense, and technically-advanced racing game on the planet.” Based on what we’ve seen, they’re not wrong. Even if you have heard of it you may not know that this racing title is a crowdfunded effort, with fans and the developers raising the cash to get it made. But, now that all of the work is done and a release date is…

You’ve done ALL the 360 backflips (on a motorcycle) and caught every glorious moment on film, as well as a few inglorious ones. What’s next for the person who has done everything that their GoPro has to offer? How about recording in 3D, something that is now an option thanks to a brand new casing from the action camera company. Called the Dual Hero, GoPro has launched the dual-camera casing so that users will be able to record their antic in 3D but the downside to this is that you’ll need a second GoPro Hero3+ Black Edition to insert into…

[youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKldy2YNAHk”] We’ve kept an eye on smart firearm manufacturer TrackingPoint ever since they first showed off their smart rifles to the world at large and we’ve seen them do some impressive things with a technologically-advanced weapon. They’ve just shown off yet another development with their firearms that is venturing into video game territory and the video above shows it off pretty well. TrackingPoint have used Android and a Google Glass-like interface, which is built into a set of ski goggles, in order to mark and then hit a target, in this case a bottle filled with explosive powder, without…

Samsung didn’t just unveil the mini-version of the Galaxy S5 yesterday, they also showcased four new handsets for the budget-minded and they’re all sequels. The Galaxy Core II, Galaxy Ace 4, Galaxy Star 2 and Galaxy Young 2 are all on the way to consumers on a budget and they’re all packing Android 4.4 KitKat. Specks of specs Android 4.4 is what almost all of these handsets have going for them, with the specs paling in comparison to what we’re used to cooing over at Stuff. But that’s okay, everyone needs to start somewhere when it comes to smartphones. The…

As of yesterday the Blackphone, a smartphone that has been designed with privacy and security in mind, has begun shipping to those buyers who picked it up on pre-order the first time that it was available. If you missed it the first time around, it was quickly sold out and the companies behind Blackphone, Geeksphone and Silent Circle, had to suspend sales until more stock became available. In the announcement stating that early adopters would be getting their handsets soon, the folks behind Blackphone also gave a date for the reopening of pre-orders for the device. If you’re looking to…

One of the largest and most popular game franchises in the world, second only to Nintendo’s iconic red-clad plumber in terms of total sales numbers (as of 2012), is the Pokémon series of video games so that should justify that the game series is getting its own “…live orchestral concert tour”, which is kicking off in the States in August this year. The event, called Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions, will first happen on 15 August in Washington DC and will be used to launch the 2014 Pokémon World Championships which starts in the same city the following day. According to the organisers Pokémon: Symphonic…

There’s a change-up happening for Microsoft South Africa, with the company’s local arm announcing that incumbent MD Mteto Nyati will be making way for a new Managing Director, Zoaib Hoosen. Nyati will be moving to another role with the company, that of the General Manager of Microsoft’s MEA Emerging Regions while Hoosen will be taking control of South Africa specifically. Hoosen, who spent 21 years with IBM before joining Microsoft in 2010, will be addressing several trends in SA including: the rise of multiple connected devices and the changes that cloud data will bring to the technology world. The company will continue…

Everyone knew that this one was on the way, it was just a matter of time before an announcement was made. Samsung has gone official on the Galaxy S5 Mini, dropping the specs and capabilities for the device on a hardly-surprised world a little earlier today. The miniature Galaxy S5 will be seeing a drop in specs, something else that isn’t exactly unexpected. The display is shrinking to a 4.5-inch 720p screen, a 1.4GHz quad-core chip is taking over from the Snapdragon 801 in Samsung’s full-sized phone and RAM is taking a slight dip: down from 2GB to 1.5GB. The…

If there’s something that you’d think you could (mostly) trust online, it would be your Facebook News Feed, even though you’re probably going to be sifting through the odd sarcastic post and outright lie from friends. You certainly don’t expect to have Facebook themselves controlling what you see in your news feed in the name of social research. That is just what has happened, with the 2012 study of around 690,000 users’ reactions to News Feeds being published in PNAS. The study checked whether “emotional contagion occurs outside of in-person interaction between individuals by reducing the amount of emotional content…

It’s been a long time in coming but Nokia/Microsoft’s Lumia smartphones have finally gotten access to Adobe’s Photoshop Express app. The newly-launched app is now available on South Africa’s Windows Phone app store as a free app, with certain features being available as an in-app purchase. Any Lumia running Windows Phone 8.1 with 512MB of RAM will be able to run the Adobe software, which has quite a few features available out of the box. Basic editing and red-eye removal, brightness, exposure and shadow adjustments and colour slider controls are part of the default app, as is a set of filters…