Author: Marcé

Did any of you wake up on 1 January with crystal clear 2020 vision? Neither did we. Even though that’s a bummer, the Jan/Feb 2020 issue of Stuff Magazine isn’t. We start off the year with the next-level visionary 2020 tech in our Future Tech Feature, with a curated list (read: we just about agreed in the office without violence) of our favourite gadgets. The main reason you’d want to pick up the pretty in purple Jan issue? Our annual Stuff App Awards and winners are published. Yes, we’ve finally decided which apps deserve the Stuff acknowledgement, and we had…

Light Start: CES 2020 edition – a smart lipstick mixer, enormous Predator displays, Intel’s modular gaming PC and a restaurant robo-cat?

Toby Shapshak chats to key players in SA’s solar energy industry, like Mike Peo who is the head of infrastructure and telecoms at Nedbank, along with the team at Eldo Energy. They went from making solar panels to managing the infrastructure related to the solar market. A market that has been growing rapidly in South Africa due to… obvious reasons. Increasingly, South Africans are looking for alternative energy sources, so let’s hear what the experts suggest.

While everyone is hyping over the new Xbox, Sony announced an official attachment for its Dualshock 4 controller called the Back Button Attachment. As the name suggests, it adds extra buttons to the controller around back — specifically a pair of paddles to the back of the controller.

We’ve heard many a gamer call Hideo Kojima’s new title a glorified walking simulator, and you know what? In the broader sense, that’s exactly what it is. But you know what else? It’s the best darned walking simulator around.  This year’s most anticipated PS4 title, Death Stranding, is the first title to come out of the Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid creator’s new company — Kojima Productions. The world basically stood still as we waited for this release, as the many trailers didn’t give away any pertinent info. All they left us with, honestly, was large amounts of confusion. …

Light Start – Star Wars in Fortnite, space in the Cyberbunker, meanies on Insta and no more Uber Eats.

We can all agree that Xbox’s name choices for consoled have been rather erratic in the past. It is kind of expected coming from a company that followed Windows 3 with Windows 95 and Windows Vista with Windows 7. Microsoft is a place where names for products are randomly pulled out of a hat, it seems. 

The country may be hit by some ‘scheduled rolling blackouts’, but that doesn’t mean we should stop having fun. Although it may feel like we’re back in the stone age, and traffic seems to add hours to your commute, there are ways to make the dark times more comfortable for everyone. 

The only thing keeping us from buying a Pocket right now is necessity. We’re not sure whether its need outweighs its price, but it’s a super cool gadget to own. Especially if you’re an amateur film-maker. Or if you want to up your Insta game.

Light Start – iPhone’s tracking you, more Huawei’s we can’t have, load shedding issues and cop Cybertrucks