Author: Trent Meikle

Sennheiser turns 80, celebrates with Momentum It’s been eighty years since Sennheiser started up. To celebrate the anniversary, the company is releasing a graffiti-slathered pair of Momentum 4 headphones, designed by German artist Bond Truluv. ‘The same unmatched sound, comfort, and battery life is now dressed for a milestone,” it said. Every bit of the headset has been redesigned, with a yellow band and accents celebrating the company’s iconic 1968 HD 414 headphones, while Truluv’s “throwie” tag is on the left earcup. The right is home to the most street-looking art yet, representing sound in motion. ” To be clear,…

If there’s one thing South Africans love more than a dedicated streaming TV box, it’s a dedicated streaming TV stick. Just look at Xiaomi’s ultra-successful Mi TV Stick for proof, typically loved for its three-digit price tag and half-decent internals. It’s about time Xiaomi’s 4K Stick efforts got a sequel, and the company has obliged, revealing the Xiaomi TV Stick 4K (2nd Gen) over on its global site, packing the sort of internal upgrades that make it worth considering, even if you’ve got the older one. Xiaomi’s new TV stick has arrived Where the first generation was powered by Android…

Netflix South Africa today announced what it’s calling the ScreenCraft Pathway programme, a paid-for initiative that’s looking to hire thirty “rising stars” and offer on-the-job training as part of a partnership with the Gauteng Film Commission and the KwaZulu-Natal Tourism and Film Authority. Get your flix straight from the source Netflix will begin accepting applications this August, so now would be about the time you took another look at that CV and freshened it up a bit. When applications open next month, they will be handled by Tshikululu Social Investments. The programme will offer the lucky few experience in key…

If you’ve got a kid who’s always hogging your Kindle, or you’re simply looking for a cheaper alternative to Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft, we’ve got some good news. Amazon just announced two new e-readers — one built specifically with children in mind, and another that’s all about saving a few bucks if a colour screen is a must. It’s not so black and white Calling the latter “new” may be a bit of a stretch, considering all that Amazon has done here is halve the storage of the original Colorsoft (and removed wireless charging) before calling it a day and charging…

When Xbox first announced that it was following in Nintendo’s footsteps (a good thing if we’re talking purely about game design) and would hitch an $80 price tag onto some of its games — The Outer Worlds 2, no less — it went over about as well as you’d expect. Picture a balloon, but made out of lead. Outer your mind if you think we payin’ $80 Dear Galactic Citizens!⁰⁰We have received your SOS via skip drone about the pricing. As an organization devoted to making sure that corporations do not go unfettered, we at the Earth Directorate have worked…

One of the most iconic consoles, well, ever, is undoubtedly the Nintendo Game Boy. Just waiting for a passing streetlight on the drive home so you could advance just a little bit further on the path to saving Peach, or waking up the Windfish. And now it’s back in 2025, except this time you’ll be putting it together, brick by brick. Lego, folks. It’s in the Game Boy It’s not that we’re surprised to see Nintendo stepping up its Lego game recently — frankly, we’re surprised it took this long to get a Lego Game Boy in brick form — but because…

Meta announced today that it was beefing up security for teen accounts on Instagram, as well as imposing some stricter features on accounts that primarily feature children, even if they’re run by adults. It’s a big change, and an extremely necessary one for a platform ripe with issues. This is aimed at children under 13 who aren’t technically allowed to sign up to Instagram according to the app’s terms and conditions, but whose parents have created an account and manage it for them anyway. Meta reckons these accounts are mostly harmless, though they do tend to draw out a certain…

It doesn’t seem like it was all that long ago that Lenovo announced the Legion Go S, a sort-of sequel to the excellent if slightly expensive Legion Go, and now the company may be gearing up for another release. It feels that way because it was only in January when we first got wind of the Go S, as well as a brief teaser of a proper Legion Go 2. According to some new leaks, some things have changed since we last “saw” the handheld. Reaching new extremes When Lenovo initially showed off the Legion Go 2 prototype at CES…

If you thought AI wearables had been buried in 2024, we’ve got some bad news. Amazon’s next step in the AI game isn’t focusing on something it generated in-house, but rather an acquisition of a startup by the name of Bee. Or at least, that’s the plan. Amazon noted that the deal was yet to close, though an apparently premature LinkedIn post from the startup’s founder, Maria de Lourdes Zollo, suggests otherwise. “When we started Bee, we imagined a world where AI is truly personal, where your life is understood and enhanced by technology that learns with you. What began…

It’s slowly becoming more and more common for cars to be kitted out with increasingly average AI features, but at least the guy selling you your car is free from AI, right? Right? Apparently not, assuming the guy who sold you your car works at WeBuyCars, which recently announced it had integrated not one, but two AI tools into its platform, which it believes to be a “cornerstone of its future growth”. “We” BuyCars WeBuyCars has at least dubbed its LLM tools decidedly non-human names like “Orange” and “Blue”, which should avoid potential emotional hardship should the company ever decide to…