Author: Trent Meikle

If you’re an avid follower of the metric system, there’s a good chance you’ve been watching the hype around Apple’s Vision Pro slowly dissipate from afar since it hit American shelves on 2 February 2024. Those imperialists have been walking around with $3,500 tech plastered on their faces and… we’re jealous. Not because of their fascination to measure stuff using Elk, but because we want that $3,500 tech on our own faces. Thus far, Apple’s been awfully quiet regarding the Vision Pro’s international ambitions and the sort of price it’ll fetch when it does eventually turn up elsewhere. Africantechno has…

Elections must be right around the corner. We know this, not because of a simple Google search, but because the government has been all the more focused on stamping out crime than ever before. At least, since the last big push in 2019. Part of the new wave of crime-stamping involves dolling out brand-new, “tamper-proof” number plates to everyone in South Africa. Yup, everyone. Gauteng’s got new plates You might’ve seen eNCA’s interview with Panyaza Lesufi, Gauteng’s Premier, where he went a little more in-depth on the government’s recent partnership with Vumacam that’ll see it tap into a massive feed of…

There’s a decent chance BYD isn’t part of your vocabulary yet. Why would it be? It’s a Chinese-based company with an acronym as its name that focuses primarily on selling electronics and electric vehicles… in China. Sure, it’s got grips in a few countries, South Africa included, but we wouldn’t call it a household name. Yet, anyway. Stick around a while longer, and that’ll be changing. According to MyBroadband, BYD Automotive has plans to launch its cheapest EV — the BYD Seagull — in South Africa. You know, where electricity flows freely. Only, it wouldn’t be dubbed the BYD Seagull. A…

It just never ends, does it? After the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy’s recent battle with the country’s petrol and diesel prices — to which the country lost in spectacular fashion — you’d think we’d be afforded a reprieve, however slight. Well… that isn’t happening. At least that’s what the Central Energy Fund (CEF) had to say on the subject, having just dropped a fresh batch of predictions on our heads. Fortunately, there’s still plenty of time to turn things around and knock that price down. The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy — the ones responsible for the…

If you’ve driven around Gauteng for any length of time, there’s a good chance you’ve spotted at least one of those Vumacam-branded cam stations dotted around the place. They’re part of what Vumacam calls the SafeCity initiative, and now it’s getting the government involved. It’ll be giving Gauteng’s Provincial Government immediate access to its extensive camera network. All in the name of fighting crime and promoting safety across the province, of course. Vumacam level: over 6,000! The partnership, announced at a press briefing in Milpark this morning, will see Gauteng benefitting from that over 6,000-strong camera network and “advanced crime-fighting…

Think back to 2019. COVID hadn’t yet turned us into gormless TikTok-scrolling beasts but we also only had a single device that could send WhatsApp messages at a time. We were happy. Once Meta introduced the wonders of linked device functionality, we began getting greedy. We were a part of that crowd that couldn’t understand why Locked Chats didn’t appear so when accessed from a secondary device. All that griping seems to have gotten through, however. WhatsApp is bringing Locked Chat parity to the numerous devices your account is available on. Finally. That’s what WABetaInfo had to say on the subject,…

Put that iPhone on fold We’ve been eagerly awaiting a folding iPhone for quite some time now. No, seriously. Apple’s plans for a bendable smartphone in the market reportedly date back as far as 2018, and it hasn’t yet given up on those dreams of taking on the countless foldables already on the shelves. According to a new report from The Information (via 9to5mac), the three-trillion-dollar company has at least two clamshell-foldable smartphones cooking in the lab. You’d think six years of ideas would be enough for a commercial model to have hit the market by now. Apparently not. Those…

If you’re as fed up as we are with Nintendo’s practice of selling you the same potentiometer-riddled controllers every couple of months, cast your gaze in CRKD’s direction and behold its latest piece of wizardry: the Neo S. It’s a follow-up to the Nitro Deck controller that somehow slipped by us, and we won’t be making the same mistake where its little brother is concerned. And before you ask; yes — they do ship to South Africa. We just want to talk, CRKD Not only are they more glorious than most things coming out of Nintendo’s front end (which is…

It’s pretty much an open secret at this point that Nintendo has a pretty big — around 8in or so — secret up its sleeve for 2024. If the incessant rumour-mongering of a Switch 2, Switch Pro or Ultra Max (or whatever it’s called) weren’t enough of a hint, leaker Nate The Hate reckons the Tears of the Kingdom publisher has something waiting in the wings for March. (That something is the Switch 2 if we hadn’t made that obvious.) Switch 2, Electric Boogaloo He said as much on his recent podcast and later in this one, where he sounded a…

We won’t debate what soundbars are and why you want one. They’ve been around since at least the late 90s and have since become a mainstay in most home cinema set-ups. Their rising popularity has given birth to a wave of far-too-expensive soundbar combos whose only purpose is to service the most rabid audiophiles out there. Most, however, are happy to pick the thing with the fewest zeroes and call it a day. If fewer zeroes sounds like a good deal, Hisense’s HS2100 soundbar + subwoofer combo will run you roughly R2,700 (if you know where to look), and conjure…