Author: Max Milella

2021 has been a bumper year for tech, despite setbacks like the ongoing semiconductor shortage and, you know, a genuine pandemic. Working at stuff I’ve had the pleasure of toying with a few interesting gadgets and gizmos, and here are my favourites. The LG Wing Now, let’s get something out of the way right now. I am not saying that LGs final phone is one of the best of 2021. Far from it. I am saying I had an absolutely brilliant time with it.  For my first project at Stuff (in essence, a test) I was given the Wing to…

Stuff says –  3.5/5 The YoloBox Pro is an all in one live streaming hub. It’s got plenty of ports for your plethora of cams and connectors, all controllable from the touch screen display, and integrated streaming to Facebook Gaming, YouTube and Twitch. With its remarkably simple set-up and easy-to-understand user interface, this would be the perfect device for burgeoning streamers if it weren’t for its hefty R24,000 price tag.Ease at a priceAs mentioned, the YoloBox can do just about anything you need it to for live streams, particularly thanks to all of its input and output ports. These…

Need some help putting up that new shelf? Planning a particularly prop heavy cosplay? Whatever your next DIY project may be, you’re gonna need the right tools for the job. And here they are: Creality Ender-3 V2 3D Printer No surprises here. The quintessential tool for any DIY tech nut has got to be a 3D printer, and Creality makes some fantastic consumer-level models. The Ender-3 is quick, slick, stable and user-friendly. Thanks to its V-glide rail pulley system, it can print more effectively and quietly, and will take a lot longer before it starts needing some TLC. An absolute…

LG’s not exactly a key player in the gaming-gear space. In fact, it’s several spaces removed from the gaming sphere, making laptops and notebooks built for the office. Until now, that is. The South Korean electronics brand has announced its first-ever gaming laptop, the UltraGear 17G90Q. And it’s a bit of a beast. LG’s UltraGear is ultra strong The 17-inch UltraGear packs an 11th Gen Intel Tiger Lake-H CPU for its brains, and a titanic Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q graphics card for brawn. In case you somehow weren’t aware, this is Nvidia’s most powerful laptop graphics card. LG’s had…

Stuff says –  4/5 As much as built-in phone and audio tech has come a long way as far as mic arrays are concerned, they still struggle to hold a candle to external microphones. Particularly when you need to use them for more than the occasional voice note. Normally, high-quality microphones cost a pretty penny, but the Sarmonic LavMicro is a brilliant little clip-on mic that delivers quality audio at a very attractive price. Perfect Sarmony Now, clip-on-mics aren’t usually anyone’s first choice when it comes to upping one’s audio game. Most would look first at table-stand mics or…

TikTok, the master of monetising impulsiveness, is looking to become the next meal delivery platform. As if 2021 could get any weirder. The massively popular social media platform is pairing up with Virtual Dining Concepts (VDC), whose name is rather self-explanatory, to make and deliver virally trending meals to your door. Tuck in with TikTok In case you didn’t know, there’s a lot of food-related content on TikTok. As Instagram taught us ages ago, there are few things quite as fun as posting pictures or videos of your food online. Often, creators will post their culinary creations to TikTok with…

Final Fantasy XIV, following its timeless redemption story, has always been popular, but it’s blown up in a big way over the past two years. Thanks to a combination of engaging content, coverage from streamers and some big hits on the competition World of Warcraft (or, at least, the studio behind it), Square Enix’s MMO (or MORP depending on who you ask) is more popular than ever. So popular, in fact, that the studio has to halt sales of it as servers buckle. Popular kid problems for Final Fantasy As a woefully inadequate but fit-for-purpose explainer, MMOs (massively multiplayer online…

A few days ago we caught wind of the fact that Huawei has a new phone in the works, slated for release on the 23rd of this month. Specifically, a Galaxy Flip-esque foldable named the P50 Pocket. Past the name, shape and potentially palette offerings we didn’t know much else about it. But now we’ve gotten a good look at it thanks to a fashion outlet. The ol’ Huawei half-fold The outlet, Harper’s Bazaar China, shared a number of glossy pictures showing off the phone in the hands of singer and actor Guan Xiaotong. This particular model looks a little…

Whether you’re an aperture amateur or a veritable shutterbug, one thing’s certain: you never have enough gear. So here’s a list of goodies to make sure you always get that perfect shot. Canon EOS RP R28 900 | ormsdirect.com As far as choosing mirrorless cameras go, we’re a bit spoiled for choice here. That’s a quality problem to have. But when you’re not sure what you need, go with something that’s good at everything, like the Canon EOS RP. The 26.2MP CMOS sensor captures images in crystal clear quality no matter the lighting, and the DIGIC 8 processor keeps things…

Twitter has taken a hot minute with this, possibly thanks to its whole CEO shakeup thing, but it’s finally rolling out a key feature towards accessibility: closed captions for videos. Twitter announced via its Support page that, as of yesterday, captions now show up automatically on any (new) video posted. Expanding Twitter’s toolkit Captions are available across the board for Twitter users, on iOS, Android and on the web client. On mobile, captions will pop up immediately if you have your volume all the way down, though you can set them up to stick around via your phone’s accessibility settings…