Author: Brett Venter

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…

NASA, if your memory is good enough, sent a spacecraft to tangle with an asteroid late last year. The DART or Double Asteroid Redirection Test came to a conclusion last night when the 600kg satellite collided with its target out in space. The plan was to lob the DART satellite at the Dimorphos asteroid and see if it makes any difference to its trajectory. Most of the DART was just weight with some basic navigation and propulsion systems, intended to collide with the Didymos satellite orbiting Dimorphos. Unfortunately, Didymos wasn’t playing ball so NASA sent it at the roughly 150-metre…

There’s nothing wrong with a little healthy competition. Unless you’re Mark Zuckerberg, in which case all opposition to your plan for world domination should be crushed underfoot. Even then, it may not go your own way. But it’s not just social media that suffers from a lack of proper competition. It’s part of a greater trend in the technology space. Smartphones are at risk, along with social media, laptops, and a host of other technologies. The reason? There’s less competition in the market than there used to be. Worse, there doesn’t seem to be a way to fix it. Risk…

Let’s start by saying that we have no idea what the Delage D12 will cost when it finally goes into production. The vehicle is the headliner for the resurrected Delage marque and it’s a beast. In a very sleek, F1 sort of way. When (or if) it releases, it’ll be the fastest supercar allowed on conventional roads. How fast, you ask? 360km/h, but you’re not supposed to drive it that fast anywhere outside of a track. But you’d probably make use of its bonkers acceleration at least once or twice. The Delage D12 is supposed to be able to reach…

Nobody can accuse Samsung of trying to reinvent the wheel. The toilet, on the other hand… Yes, Samsung has come up with a technologically advanced toilet, providing us with a chance to indulge in some terrible humour. That’s not the first thing on our minds. It is, however, number two. Jokes aside, the South Korean company really has an all-new take on the traditional thunderbox. It’s supposed to be a more environmentally friendly toilet, thanks to a couple of innovations. [insert toilet humour here] The company’s R&D division, the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, came up with the concept as…

It looks as though South Africans might see some relief from load shedding this weekend. Eskom has announced that the stages experienced will scale back over the weekend. We’re on Stage 5. By early Sunday morning, the country should be at Stage 3. That’s the plan, anyway. Stage 5 is expected to stick around until 05:00 on Saturday morning, after which it’s Stage 4 until 05:00 on Sunday morning. That’s planned until 05:00 on Monday morning. After that… who knows? It’s a Stage they’re going through #POWERALERT1 Loadshedding will continue to be implemented at Stage 5 until Saturday morning, thereafter,…

What happens when you combine Kojima Productions, NASA, and a wristwatch manufacturer? You end up with a wristwatch based on a video game company’s mascot and possibly the strangest crossover event in history. Okay, except maybe for that time Elton John and Eminem performed together at the Grammys. What’s Kojima up to now? Uncle Hideo is known for being a little weird. Kojima Productions’ mascot is a character called Ludens. Ludens spends all of his time in a space suit. He’s famous for it, almost. You know who else spends loads of time in spacesuits? Astronauts? So the partnership between…

A certain short-form video app (*cough*TikTok*cough*) has caused considerable issues for authors. You know, those people who write books? Amazon’s about to correct those issues or, at the very least, make it harder for authors to lose money just because people want free books. Amazon is about to change how ebook refunds on the platform work. It used to be that ebooks could be returned for a refund within seven days of purchase, no questions asked. Well, the online shopping giant’s about to start asking questions. An Amazon expedition For starters, the seven-day, no-questions-asked policy is about to go away…