Author: Trent Meikle

There’s a new Lego Lord of the Rings set in town, meaning to draw the eye of just about anyone who walks by, owing to the 8,278 bricks that’ll need to be assembled. The set captures the iconic Minas Tirith in brick form, as seen in the fantastic Lord of the Rings trilogy. It’s set to arrive this June with a whopping R13,000 price tag. A Lego set is never late… While the Tower of Guard presents an appropriate face from the front, there’s a bit more opportunity for play here than we expected. Flip Minas Tirith around, and you’ll find the Throne…

Set to rival Meta’s Ray-Ban supremacy, Samsung and Google showed off the design(s) of the duo’s long-rumoured smart glasses this week, co-developed by Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. If you missed the whole smart glasses pitch when Meta popularised them a few years back, these similarly rely on artificial intelligence — Gemini, in this case — that the user interacts with while wearing them. The glasses are set to launch this Spring. Another Google Glass? https://youtu.be/s4Lav_gsMPo The four-way resulted in two distinct pairs of glasses, though the technology inside them will remain the same. First up is Gentle Monster’s, which…

If the likes of Toyota, Geely, VW, Jetour, or Chery from this month alone couldn’t convince you that you needed an EV, then perhaps iCaur will do the trick. The Chinese brand confirmed the all-new, all-electric 03T SUV had launched in South Africa, bringing two derivatives with it — the 2WD and AWD. If you weren’t at least tempted by Geely’s E2 at R340,000, we doubt iCaur will have much more success with the R640,000 starting price here. While iCaur reckons the car has launched, it won’t turn up in showrooms ’til 28 May. That’s not exactly what we’d call…

South Africa may have dodged the PS Plus price hikes, but the Law of Equivalent Exchange seems determined to ensure we’ll experience some hardship this month. That would be the Disney+ price hike coming for both new and existing customers. The hike only hurts monthly Premium subscribers, leaving annual and Mobile subs safe. For now. Disney Plus R20/m That makes the annual subscription an even better deal than it was previously, which we’re sure was Disney’s plan all along. Instead of handing over R160/m for access to Disney content, customers will now pay R180/m for access starting 4 June 2026.…

Picking up a gaming laptop in South Africa can be a scary and often confusing thing. Every brand wants to grab your attention and keep it, with some, MSI included, even throwing ‘AI’ into the name to make that happen. That’s not a knock against the hardware — which actually proved quite resilient in the face of a tough market. Focus on the ‘Cyborg’ bit of the name, and you should come right here. Loaded with an RTX 5050 and a 15.6in display that we wouldn’t mind looking at some more, there’s plenty to keep you busy with your backlog,…

It’s not often that Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier is wrong when it comes to the inner workings of the video game industry, but we’d hoped that his claims that PlayStation would ditch PC ports was one of those rare moments. It unfortunately wasn’t, as Schreier today confirmed the story in a post on Bluesky. It’s okay to cry, PC players. Plus, there may be an Infamous remake in the works, according to Video Game Chronicle (VGC). Fingers crossed. Playing PlayStation games on the PlayStation 5 “PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff in a town hall Monday morning that the company’s narrative single-player games will…

The current meta in the South African EV landscape is all about one-upping the competition with more and more affordable pricing. The title for the cheapest EV in the country currently goes to the Geely E2. But every once in a while, we see a return to the early days of the electric wasteland, like with Toyota SA’s first-ever EV, the bZ4X. It really rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? While it does seem like the bZ4X is one competent EV, with approximately 480km of range on a single charge and a 0-100km/h sprint of 5.1 seconds, it’ll come at…

After Tecno’s Pova 7 Pro passed through our doors, we’re eager to see what the Chinese brand has in store on that front. Just about anyone could’ve guessed that would be the Pova 8 and Pova 8 Pro, but now the future seems more certain. Both the Pova 8 and its Pro sibling have turned up early, all but confirming an imminent launch. Pova and out They may take their sweet time getting to South Africa, though. The Pova 7 family launched in July of last year, but only made its way to our shores in September. We’d bet that…

WhatsApp’s disappearing messages are a bit of a mixed bag in the feature’s current form. They are toggled on or off on a per-chat basis or globally, with the options being 24 hours, 7 days, or 90 days. According to WABetaInfo (who else?), the Meta-owned messenger is hard at work on an update that’ll make it a bit more palatable. WhatsApp’s disappearing act As spotted within the WhatsApp beta for iOS 26.19.10.72 update, WhatsApp will allow users to auto-delete messages right after they’ve been read. This is similar to the app’s ‘View-Once’ format, which only allows select images and videos to…

Apple’s revamped Siri is no alpha Despite spending the last few years in the cooker, Apple’s major Siri overhaul may not even be (technically) ready by the time iOS 27 ships. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said as much in his weekly Power On newsletter, alongside the earth-shattering news that Genmoji was due an upgrade. Screw Siri and focus on the big stuff, Apple. Gurman reckons that the revamped Siri experience, which Apple first began punting back in 2024, will launch alongside iOS 27 but, notably, with a big ‘beta’ label attached. “Given that we’re only a month out from WWDC, there is a strong…