Author: Brett Venter

Huawei has a new folding smartphone heading to market in the next couple of weeks. The Huawei Pocket S was originally known as the ‘Huawei P50 Pocket New’, before the Chinese company made the device — and its launch date — official. The official launch is on 2 November for the Chinese market. If the folding Huawei Pocket S follows the pattern set by the P50 Pocket’s launch in 2020, other markets (like South Africa) will see it around April 2023. For now, though, it’s confined to China. Pick a Pocket S Huawei Pocket S teaser pic.twitter.com/sIL8VfQB0Q — Deng Li…

We’re used to Meta copying everything new for its own purposes. That’s how we got Reels and more than a few other features besides. But Make-A-Video, a video-centric spinoff of the AI-generated images that are so hot right now, is a cloned technology we were not expecting to see. And yet, here we are. Meta head Mark Zuckerberg introduced the technology in a Facebook post earlier this week. It’s very similar to other AI-powered image generation in that it works off of a text prompt. But apparently, it’s harder to create videos than static images. Dall-E but make it video…

Surveillance capitalism is about to start tracking yet another aspect of your life. This time, it’s your breathing that’s up for grabs. Amazon last night announced the Halo Rise, a night-time gadget designed to keep an eye on your nocturnal habits. The sleeping ones, anyway. It’s not just a tracker, of course. That would be far harder to allow in a bedroom so it can watch you sleep. Amazon’s newest gizmo is a bedside lap but with smart features. A gradually increasing light when you wake up, to simulate a sunrise, is just the start. A game of Halo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPWkhN60Lo&feature=emb_logo…

You know how, towards the end of the year, sometimes you just know you’re not going to make any significant changes in the coming year? Based on the new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra leak, that must be how the South Korean company feels right now. Honestly, we kinda get it. It’s been a rough few years. Seriously though, the new Galaxy S23 Ultra leak shows that, on a visual level at least, very little is going to change. As with the Galaxy Fold 4, you’ll spot the differences but only if you’re using a very large magnifying glass. Spare some…

Earlier this month, Amazon announced a new update to its standard Kindle e-reader. We weren’t expecting something completely new, but the new Kindle Scribe definitely fits that bill. At first glance, it looks an awful lot like the Kindle Oasis. It’s a little more versatile than that, however. A career as a Scribe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSl721wVaqI Usually, you’re discouraged from writing in books. Unless, of course, they’re yours and you’re not planning on letting anyone else ever see them. But even if you were a scribbler, the advent of the e-reader made that really hard to do. The Kindle Scribe plans to…

Volvo’s done a lot to innovate motor vehicles. The seatbelt in its current form comes from the Swedish car maker. Now it’s launching something wholly new — radar. But not radar outside the vehicle. That’s been done before. This is introspective radar. It looks inward. It sees what other radars do not. And what it sees is that you’ve left a puppy or a small child asleep on the back seat. And the window’s not open and the air conditioner isn’t on. Volvo evolves The feature — and it’s definitely a feature — will arrive in the company’s EX90 EV,…

Earlier this year we saw Oppo’s Reno 7 5G smartphone hit the South African market. It’s taken less than six months for the Oppo Reno 8 5G to follow suit. This time, though, it’s brought a larger price tag and a Pro version of the handset along for the ride. Last night was the South African launch of the Chinese handset. Stuff was there, which you would know if you followed our Twitter account. While you fix that hideous oversight, here’s what you missed from the event. Going to Reno 8 – Reno-fication Oppo was quick to point out several…

Advertising is everywhere. It’s in your phone, it’s in your browser, it’ll pre-roll before a YouTube video, heck, even Netflix is planning on serving ads. Soon it’ll be everywhere else. LG is bringing its OLED tech to glass panels, specifically those that occupy trains. The company showed off its transparent screen (a version of which we believe you can see at the company’s local showroom) at InnoTrans 2022. It’s not new, by any means, but it’s destined for more places than just Japan and China. LG already offers its OLED window-screens to train manufacturers in that country. We’re being OLED…

Star Wars is no stranger to many things. Nerd fights, lore inconsistency, and perhaps too many different threads happening at once. And one other thing — Lego sets. There’s a brand new one on the horizon and it’s big. Literally. The Razor Crest from Disney+’s The Mandalorian is set to drop soon. Not ‘drop’ drop. That would wipe out hours of hard work. The huge 6,187-piece Lego set is supposed to debut in early October. When it does, it’ll cost more than R11,000, which is the American pricing ($600) for the spacecraft. The Razor’s Crest The Razor Crest, in case…

Perhaps we were too harsh with the organisers behind the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) convention. When the event was cancelled earlier this year, the Stuff offices predicted the demise of the event as a whole. As an in-person outing, at any rate. Turns out, that’s not the case. Next year will see an E3 event take place in Los Angeles. As is traditional, it’ll occur during June. The 2023 event will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Basically, nothing has changed on that front. To E3 or not to E3 Or anywhere else, really. The event will take…