Author: Brett Venter

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…

If you speak softly (until the nineteenth hole) and swing a big stick, the Honma x Huawei Watch GT 6 Pro partnership could be of interest to you. The hardware used for the tie-up between the Japanese golfing gear company and Huawei is almost identical to Huawei’s standard-issue gear, but there’s something that’ll make it stand out on your wrist. That something is a golden titanium bezel with a cute little mole logo, Honma’s trademark, embossed in the face. If you’re toting one of these, along with, say, one for the Japanese outfit’s R991,500 14-karat gold/platinum Beres 09 club sets,…

Yahoo, one of the survivors of the original Dot Com bubble, was once a major player in the search engine space. Between them, Ask Jeeves, and Google, the company used to be a serious option when tracking down information online. If, hearing that the company’s search engine has recently undergone an upgrade, you were to say, “They’re still doing that?”, then you’re not alone. And yet, here we are. Yahoo has announced a new proprietary “answer engine” that will run inside all of the company’s products, including the Search option that definitely still exists. Called Yahoo Scout, the service is…

It’s been said before, but it bears repeating: The internet was always supposed to be a different thing from what we have now. Advertising came along and killed the internet’s potential, helped along by the companies that hold most folks’ experience in the palms of their hands. Not because it was better, in any way. Instead, it was done because it was more convenient for the people making money out of your web searches, doomscrolls, and other online activity. Apps — you know what apps are — were sold to the world as a more convenient way to get the…

Samsung’s Galaxy Z TriFold is heading to more countries outside South Korea, which means we’re getting closer to realistic pricing when (and if) it appears in South Africa. Turns out, in America, finding updates is as easy as calling someone at a store and asking for details. Making you pay TriFold That only works if you’re in the States, however. Samsung is said to be launching sales of its double-folding smartphone in the US, but it’s limiting sales to in-person only. It’ll also only debut the phones at a limited number of physical locations. As to what it’ll cost, reports suggest retail pricing…