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​Most South Africans are familiar with the institution that is Teljoy. The technology brand from a time before that was a thing has morphed into a thoroughly modern entity. Stuff’s editor-in-chief​ Toby Shapshak speaks to Teljoy CEO Jonathan Hurvitz about the company’s successful pivot to a technology rental service that brings flexibility and affordability to customers without the risks that purchasing items on credit entails. Learn more about what Teljoy brings to the table, whether it’s the ability to change or upgrade the items in a home at short notice or the ease of access that eventually leads to ownership,…

Another showcase of Apple’s design skills: the USB stick-of-gum iPod! Look here – we’ll have nothing said against the first-gen iPod Shuffle, which turned 20 in January. Sure, it was a bit weird to see Apple selling an iPod without a screen … or a scroll wheel … or any apps … or even basic playlist management. But you could argue that iTunes filling it at random with songs from your collection was remarkably prescient. After all, who bothers managing music these days? We all just use a streaming service and have it pump whatever it chooses into our ears.…

Buckle up because the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has finally published October’s official petrol price adjustments – offering small fuel price relief to most of South Africa’s motorists from tomorrow, 1 October. Diesel drivers will be especially glad of the price decrease, following a major price decrease earlier this month. Diesel price wins this October Certain motorists who rely on petrol won’t be so lucky come October. Those who stick with 93 Petrol will be glad of the admittedly minor price decrease tomorrow, while those who purchase the higher-grade 95 Petrol will be forced to contend with a…

I remember this. Solitaire! Cards go BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE! Windows 3 was about more than Solitaire, but then it needed to be. Windows 1 didn’t even have overlapping windows, and v2 felt clunky compared to what Apple was shipping at the time. But with its fancy File Manager and Program Manager, swanky sculpted buttons and standardised menus, Windows 3 was, well, at least less clunky. And it did have Solitaire, even if that was mostly included to force people to start using a mouse and to pretend computers were for normal people. So it was very much a case of…

The Huawei Women in Tech 2025 programme recently took place in Johannesburg, bringing together 40 women entrepreneurs and government leaders for three days of digital skills and leadership development. In collaboration with Stuff magazine, this year’s programme placed a strong focus on entrepreneurship and consumer technology, showing participants how start-ups can grow through smart marketing strategies while also exploring the evolution of technology from its early disruptors to today’s AI-driven world. Entrepreneurship meets consumer tech Entrepreneur Heidi Patmore of Manjaro Marketing inspired participants with her lessons from building in the start-up sector, emphasising the importance of funding, visibility, and sustainable…

Following a rather tough month for South Africa’s fuel prices in August, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has some good news. Finally. Starting Wednesday, 3 September 2025, both the price of petrol and diesel will receive a major price cut, making for a more affordable month than the last. Fuel prices stay winning We should note that, like clockwork, the DMRE adjusts the country’s fuel prices on the first Wednesday (at midnight) of any given month, and a not a moment sooner. That leaves motorists plenty of time to plan out their car’s next move and avoid…

Yeah, VR! I love VR! Wait … what’s this hellish contraption? Hellish is right. Everything about Virtual Boy, Nintendo’s first foray into ‘proper 3D’, seems designed to cause abject horror. The ad spot featured a bipedal Virtual Boy marching across a dystopian landscape, snaring a terrified human, while a voiceover growled it “needs your eyes”. And then there’s the problem of actually playing the thing. Because Nintendo didn’t want you impaling yourself on a fork when blindly stumbling around, you couldn’t strap the thing to your face like modern VR … so it had a stand. So you had to…

Nvidia’s cloud gaming service, GeForce Now, is set to be upgraded next month. Its servers will chuck the current GPUs and replace them with shiny new RTX 5080 cards. With this hardware upgrade also comes a new experimental feature from Nvidia’s partnership with Discord and Epic Games. The experimental feature enables prospective gamers to immediately try a game via Discord before they fork over their dough. Nvidia will show off the feature in what it calls a ‘technology demo’ at Gamescom this week. The first game playable this way will be Fortnite. Nvidia try-before-you-buy “You can simply click a button…

If you’re seeing this page, you either caught it in passing as it went live or you came here via a link in the printed version of Stuff Magazine. If it’s the former, we suggest you grab a copy of the magazine (it’s right here) for just R40. Or you can buy a copy of the dead-tree version in your local store. Either way, you’ll need it to answer the questions below. Not all of them, obviously. Just the tricky one right at the bottom. You know, the one that guarantees your entry into the Stuff/Monster audio giveaway for the…

Ah, the PS One – I loved that thing. The moment when gaming finally became cool! We’re not talking about the original PlayStation, which wasn’t even called the PS1 back then (well, that would have been wildly presumptuous). This is the PS One – and it was no mere name change. Sony’s sleeker, curvier console – half the footprint, a third of the weight – was aimed at a younger, wider audience less obsessed with mean, angular hardware. And you could buy a screw-on 5in screen that arguably made it Sony’s first portable console. A portable PS? Were they expecting…