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As both Connor MacLeod and Sean Connery once said, there can be only one. That applies to more than just Stuff’s 2025 Gadget Awards winners, of course. But there really can only be a single Gadget of the Year in any given year. Directly below, you’ll find out which one knocked Stuff’s socks off enough to nab the spot. You’ll also find a pair of other Gadget Awards winners in categories that are a little murkier than smartphones, tablets, gaming, or anything else so easily categorised. The best design and the biggest innovation are a little more ephemeral and harder…

We’re almost ready to bring 2025’s Stuff Gadget Awards winners to a close — there’s just the big one (plus a few stragglers) tomorrow. But first: Something for your wrist. A few somethings, in fact. They run between ‘semi-affordable’ and ‘cash in your trust fund’, but that’s fine. Really. Wearable tech has morphed in recent years, and it wouldn’t be surprising to see a smart ring here at some point. Okay, it might be surprising, but at least brands are trying new form factors. The new stuff, as this batch of Gadget Awards winners shows, has a way to go…

Headphones are one of the toughest categories when it comes time to award the annual Stuff Gadget Awards accolades. There’s the whole ‘volume’ thing (as in, we see a lot of headphones every year), plus there’s the fact that everyone at the office has some snooty opinion. You might say that makes us snobs (the term is ‘audiophile’ if you’ve got enough money), but at least it’s a fun argument. For Stuff’s 2025 Gadget Awards, the winners were clear. As you’ll see, though, South Africa could have had a better set of products on hand. Sadly, the year’s very best……

Technically, you can use the devices in this Gadget Awards category to play games, but we’re separating them. Laptops of the more conventional sort are often used to do work-type things, too. And the pair below are, in Stuff’s opinion, the best you could nab in South Africa by the end of 2025. As with all of our other categories, though, we confined ourselves to the best tech a) you can buy here and b) we had a chance to fiddle with during the year. It’s part of what makes Stuff’s annual Gadget Awards presentation so tough to execute. On…

South Africa has spent the last few years growing a modest collection of electric cars, accelerated by China’s interest. There’s BYD, vying for your budget EV bucks, or Dongfeng’s R5 million+ electric sportscars — and numerous others in between. With new brands showing up almost daily and car-charge stations cropping up at every corner, it’s arguably the best time to get into an EV in South Africa. We can’t promise that Eskom won’t fall from its pedestal in some spectacular fashion in the near future, though. If the thought doesn’t faze you, we’ve compiled a list of all the electric…

2025 was a good year for gaming (hardware, at any rate). Stuff’s Gadget Awards winners on that particular slate are a stunning bunch, running the gauntlet from a new games console to something that would make a 1980s arcade kiddie cry with joy that such a thing exists. Of course, you didn’t have to wait to find out who won the Best of categories for gaming. We’ve had these in print for some time now. Anyone wanting to leapfrog the rest of the announcements can just…grab a copy of the magazine. The full roster of Stuff’s Gadget Awards winners is…

There are a few major categories of screens for you to stare at. Stuff’s annual Gadget Awards covers all of them, with the winners of our 2025 television category being a major contributor to your avoidance behaviour. If you’d like to avoid better, whether that’s on a budget or with no cost limits, this set of category winners should be on your radar. There will be new TVs landing in South Africa in the months and weeks to come, but our winners here (first seen in Stuff’s Gadget Awards print issue) are just waiting for you to stick them in…

There are few surprises in this batch of Stuff’s 2025 Gadget Awards winners if a) you were paying attention last year or b) bought the most recent issue of the print magazine. But since not everyone does that — you really should — we’ve got the very best of 2025’s tablet hardware for you to peruse. The annual Stuff Gadget Awards don’t just look at the very top of everything. Each entry includes the devices that sit just below the top rung of the ladder. These are gadgets that were ever-so-nearly there. The winners just did something slightly better, in…

It’s time for another batch of Stuff’s 2025 Gadget Awards winners to break cover. Of course, if you’d snagged a copy of the magazine’s most recent issue (for now), you’d know what’s about to appear below. Not everyone looks at slices of dead trees — or digital approximations of them — for fun, though, so we’ve got the best smartphones of 2025 in a more modern, internet format for you. Just a few words on Stuff’s winners from the previous cycle. As with many categories of tech, there may well be better products out there. But they’ve got one serious…

You’ll want to take advantage of February’s glorious petrol and diesel prices while you still can. The official fuel price adjustments for March 2026 have been announced, bringing with them a major a hike across the board. Petrol, diesel, and even illuminating paraffin prices weren’t lucky enough to dodge a hike this month. Motorists are suffering this March All signs point to the increase in March being the first of many. With tensions bubbling over in countries overseas, oil prices will continue to soar higher and higher. Oil prices are one of the biggest factors used to determine the price…