Author: Brett Venter

South African app VodaPay, which is owned and operated (mostly) by Vodacom, has added a couple of new features. These features, the ability to both send and deposit money via the app, are edging the service ever closer to replicating the features of a bank. Which is probably the point, even if it’s being done in small increments. VodaPay your way The first thing you need to know is that depositing money into your VodaPay Wallet requires that you actually go to a physical location. One day, humanity will perfect the art of depositing cash into a mobile device. Today…

Japanese camera company Canon isn’t typically known for taking massive chances, so when it shows off a new 180°/360° camera at Japan’s Photo Next 2023 event, it’s worth paying attention to. It’s important to note that the company hasn’t said anything about a release at this point. We kinda wish they would, though. But since, according to ProNews, the unit isn’t actually in a usable state, it’s not surprising that release info is lacking. The same goes for specification and other capability information, which are similarly unknown. But there are a few things we can tell just from the images…

Music streaming app Spotify, like every company in tech, suffers a bit from the Red Queen effect. That is, the moment it stops evolving, something else is going to steal its place. We just get to sit and reap the benefits — as long as they are benefits. This newest feature could well be one of those. The company, according to Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, is working on an update it’ll call ‘Your Offline Mix’. There are absolutely zero points for guessing what it entails (but we’re going to explain it to you anyway because there’s also this thing called…

Quite often, when you reach a milestone age, you start thinking about doing something crazy. Porsche just turned 75 this week. Its present to itself is a little something called the Mission X. Whether you’ll ever be able to buy this crazy hypercar concept isn’t certain yet but you’re definitely going to want to. The German automaker has built it to similar dimensions to the Carrera GT and 918 Spyder but has given it EV internals capable of charging to full incredibly quickly. It’s Porsche’s birthday The Mission X is the successor to the Mission R, which was seen in…

We know that social media is becoming increasingly wacky but we’re not quite at the point where we’re filming our internal organs. Yet. We’re getting close, however. The NaviCam is a medical device currently in development by researchers at George Washington University (GWU). It is… what you’d expect to get from a product with this name. It’s a camera that can be swallowed. That’s not all that unique. They exist but current versions are reliant on gravity and the body’s whims to get where it needs to go. The team at the GW School of Medicine & Health Sciences has…

South Africa is due to receive a new electric SUV soon. The Volvo EX30, announced this afternoon, is being billed as one of the country’s most affordable EVs. Granted, that’s not hard to do, but a starting price for the new compact SUV of R776,000 has it in the running for the best-priced (known brand) electric vehicle in the country. ‘Compact’ is the operative word when describing Volvo’s newest vehicle, though that’s also a relative term for the range. The petrol-driven XC90 measures almost five metres from end to end. By comparison, the EX30 features dimensions of 4,233mm x 1,836mm…

Taiwanese tech maker Asus makes loads of Zenbooks. Perhaps too many, but that’s a rant for another day. The latest entry from the company is the Asus Zenbook S 13, an update on a model released last year that, amazingly, Stuff didn’t actually get to test. We might have… but this model’s lacking an S. It’s a pity, too, because we’d have loved to have something to compare this unit directly to. The Zenbook S 13 does a lot to justify its R33,000 price tag, being among the neatest, lightest Windows machines we’ve ever had the pleasure of using. But…

Long years of rumour have culminated in Apple’s first set of augmented reality goggles. Turns out, everyone got the name wrong. Vision Pro is the moniker Apple has used for the newest hardware to issue forth from the company. At first glance, the ‘goggles’ concept is pretty literal. They’re reminiscent of space-age scuba gear but, in typical Apple style, the concept should grow on you. But, also in typical Apple style, the Vision Pro goggles aren’t really doing anything new. The hardware’s abilities and features aren’t unique. Meta’s Oculus hardware has augmented reality functions. So does Microsoft’s Hololens. But Apple…

Apple’s WWDC events don’t usually go too hard on hardware but the newly announced M2 Ultra chipset is the best thing to happen to personal computing, ever. That’s not us making the claim, obviously. The fruit company blitzed through the announcement but made it very clear that the M2 Ultra is the latest, greatest invention in the history of processors. Which is why Apple has placed it inside both the Mac Studio and the Mac Pro lineup. You remember the cheese grater, don’t you? But these units are typically designed for use in industrial contexts — high-end video editing and…

Is it possible that we might see an NFT implementation that fulfils the promise the technology originally promised? A new partnership between EA Sports and Nike’s .SWOOSH digital collectibles platform might one day make that a reality. The team-up, on the face of it, sounds like a great idea — if the participants can pull it off. It will involve creating “new immersive experiences” so that players are able to “unlock brand-new levels of customization within the EA Sports ecosystem”. But we’ll believe it when we see it. EA Sports takes a swing at NFTs It’s ambitious, though. .SWOOSH was…