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What a year! What a lot of gear! Struggling to remember what’s hot and what’s not? Our annual Gadget Awards have done the hard work for you – join us in celebrating the very best tech to have come out in the previous 12 months. Out of all our category winners, this pair came out on top. Of course, as the Highlander is known to say, there can be only one. You’ll find that one below. INNOVATION OF THE YEAR SNAPDRAGON X ELITE COPILOT+ LAPTOPS Qualcomm is well known for its Snapdragon mobile chips, based on ARM designs, and it has…

What a year! What a lot of gear! Struggling to remember what’s hot and what’s not? Our annual Gadget Awards have done the hard work for you – join us in celebrating the very best tech to have come out in the previous 12 months. If you’re planning to add a new camera or speaker to your gadget arsenal, these are all excellent choices. After all, they’ve just won an award. DRONE / ACTION CAM OF THE YEAR GOPRO HERO 13 BLACK There’s a reason every action camera is called a GoPro. Just like folks calling all tablets an iPad, GoPro…

What a year! What a lot of gear! Struggling to remember what’s hot and what’s not? Our annual Gadget Awards have done the hard work for you – join us in celebrating the very best tech to have come out in the previous 12 months. If you’re planning to add some wearable tech to your gadget arsenal, these are excellent choices. After all, they’ve just won an award. FITNESS WATCH/TRACKER OF THE YEAR GARMIN FENIX 8 If you’re in the market for a fitness wearable, it doesn’t get any better (or more expensive) than the Garmin Fenix 8. Prices run as…

What a year! What a lot of gear! Struggling to remember what’s hot and what’s not? Our annual Gadget Awards have done the hard work for you – join us in celebrating the very best tech to have come out in the previous 12 months. If you’re planning to add something to your gadget arsenal, these are all excellent choices. After all, they’ve just won an award. AFFORDABLE HEADPHONES OF THE YEAR SAMSUNG GALAXY BUDS FE Samsung’s Galaxy Buds have been excellent almost from the very start. They’ve also been out of reach of those with smaller pockets. The Galaxy Buds FE…

Think parties are ruined by people looking at their phones? Guess again with these mirth-making, ice-breaking mobile multiplayer party games… Exploding Kittens 2 | Android (R115) | iOS R80 Famous for its Kickstarter success and utter strangeness, Exploding Kittens 2 is back with – get this – even more strangeness. And exploding kittens, obviously. Nobody ever complained that you aren’t getting what you pay for, right? Exploding Kittens 2 returns with the same gut-wrenching gameplay (have you ever had a five-nope rally?) felt in the real-life card game, now with customisable avatars, plenty of game modes, and a good few hours of…

What a year! What a lot of gear! Struggling to remember what’s hot and what’s not? Our annual Gadget Awards have done the hard work for you – join us in celebrating the very best tech to have come out in the previous 12 months. If you’re planning to add something to your gadget arsenal, these are all excellent choices. After all, they’ve just won an award. CONSOLE GAMING ACCESSORY OF THE YEAR RAZER WOLVERINE V3 PRO Fancy becoming an esports champion? A pro-level gamer for whom every nanosecond counts? Then a standard Xbox controller simply isn’t going to cut the mustard.…

What a year! What a lot of gear! Struggling to remember what’s hot and what’s not? Our annual Gadget Awards have done the hard work for you – join us in celebrating the very best tech to have come out in the previous 12 months. If you’re planning to add something to your gadget arsenal, these are all excellent choices. After all, they’ve just won an award. PREMIUM TABLET OF THE YEAR APPLE iPAD PRO (M4) Yes, we know it costs almost as much as a MacBook, but the latest iPad Pro is just irrepressible, building powerful enhancements onto the excellent…

What a year! What a lot of gear! Struggling to remember what’s hot and what’s not? We’ve done the hard work for you – join us in celebrating the very best tech to have come out in the previous 12 months. If you’re planning to add something to your gadget arsenal, these are all excellent choices. After all, they’ve just won an award. PHONE OF THE YEAR APPLE iPHONE 16 It was awesome even before its headline innovation, the Apple Intelligence suite of AI tools, turned up . Robo-assisted shopping lists aside, though, there’s more than enough about the iPhone…

It’s been a couple of months since Tim Cook scrambled down your chimney to deposit new toys directly into your iPhone and iPad – so Stuff has dug into the best ones to try first. From navigating the basics of your new suite of features to the sort of essential apps you can’t (or really, shouldn’t) live without, we’ve got you covered. THE BASICS Back up It’s unlikely that installing an operating system upgrade will obliterate your data. But it’s not impossible. So, unless you like living dangerously, ensure you take a full iCloud backup before upgrading your iPhone or iPad.…

If you’re keen to binge-watch so many box sets your eyes will turn 16:9, check out these tips from Stuff and get even more from Amazon’s on-demand streaming TV service, Prime Video. As one of South Africa’s more affordable streamers at R80/m, Amazon’s Prime Video is stacked with thousands of movies and series – featuring original content like The Boys and Invincible we can promise you won’t want to put down… THE BASICS Nuke the ads The big new Prime Video feature for 2024 was ads. ‘Yay.’ In terms of the annoyance factor, they’re about halfway between YouTube and ITV. They’re not a…