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The only question we get more often than “Apple or Android?” or “You’re not really going to wear that out, are you?” is “Which headphones should I buy?” So, dear reader, we’ve put together a feature that tackles that very question (p38), dispatched a

Apparently Huawei’s P30 Pro can make phone calls. Not that you’ll have much time for such archaic activities with this octa-core Kirin 980-powered monster in your hand. The teardrop notch and in-screen fingerprint sensor mean a 6.47in 2340x1080 OLED

R11 500 / cybertrek.co.za The original Oculus Rift headset might have sparked the virtual reality revolution, but it’s beginning to show its advancing years. Step forward the Rift S, which, while not exactly the Oculus Rift 2.0, does a lot more than

Have you, though? Because unless you’ve seen a tap-dancing badger or Piers Morgan display an iota of self-awareness, you’ve still got at least one other thing left to tick off. And when you stop and think about it, Sony’s Wena Wrist Pro isn’t such an

It seems strange that one of the largest tech companies on the planet has taken this long to grab a slice of the oh-so-lucrative gaming pie, but Google has finally arrived with Stadia, an online game-streaming service. It’s not unlike OnLive or Sony’

Being the first Marvel Cinematic Universe movie to follow the events of Avengers: Infinity War can’t be an easy job, but Ant-Man and The Wasp, in which Paul Rudd’s shrinking superhero gets a sidekick, succeeds. The story here doesn’t concern the fate

These days, your friends are more likely to express ideas in gif and video form than use actual words. So it should come as no surprise that robots want in on the action. Desktop companion Peeqo eschews boring audio responses, instead wiggling his fl

If you consider Spain exotic, then sure. Cupra is the peri-peri sauce to Seat’s butterfly chicken: same basic formula, just a little hotter. Last year’s Cupra Ateca was a taster of things to come, merely tweaking one of Seat’s more popular SUVs with

It seems crazy to think that, less than a decade ago, non-nerds didn’t know what Huawei was. Now it’s everywhere and was second, after Samsung, for worldwide smartphone sales in 2018. It was only last year that we crowned the Huawei Mate 20 Pro as t

from R21 500 /myistore.co.za What’s the story? Apple’s showcase device for everything shiny in iPhone land is the same size, costs the same and has the same underlying screen tech as its predecessor the X, but a new camera ramps up the quality of y

Price R11 700 / audicoonline.co.za When choosing over-ear headphones, fit is almost as important as sound quality. Go for an uncomfortable pair and after a long listening session your head might feel like it’s been in a vice. Thankfully, with the

Price R2 600 (import) / jaybirdsport.com Fitness headphones can come with plenty of added tricks these days, but most of the time all you really need is a durable design, top-notch battery life and a sound that’s energetic enough to push you throu

Price R720 / sound-magic.co.za In-ear headphones can be the hardest thing to convince people they should buy. Many consider the buds that come bundled with their devices to be good enough – but you can get a huge leap in quality for around R700.

Price R6 100 / audiohead.co.za “There is this theory of the Möbius. A twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop from which there is no escape.” That quote from Star Trek: The Next Generation, sampled by electronic dance duo Orbital, s

Price R8 500 / takealot.com These wireless and noise-cancelling cans are B&O’s flagship over-ears. They certainly look the part, but have their work cut out swooping into territory dominated by the likes of Bose and Sony. Like all B&O products, t

from R2 900 / myistore.co.za Three years after they made their debut, Apple’s AirPods are comfortably the best-selling truly wireless earbuds in the world, ever-present in the ears of hypebeast teenagers, suited businessmen and professional sports pe

Commemorating Captain Scott’s ill-fated return from the South Pole, this British brand’s Swiss-made special edition has an image of a penguin atop the earth on the back of its case, representing the Terra Nova expedition, plus five stars for the expl

R52 300 (body only) / ormsdirect.co.za Everyone and their dog seems to be releasing a full-frame mirrorless camera right now, but not Olympus. It’s sticking with the Micro Four Thirds system that it’s been developing over the past 10 years – and, at

R3 000 / fitbit.com ■ We get it. Not everyone wants an all-singing, all-jiving smartwatch. It seems Fitbit’s cottoned on to this too, and has got rid of the Versa’s onboard music storage, on-screen workouts, wrist-based payments and swim tracking to

What’s the story? Pro-Ject has an Essential III for everyone: there’s a USB version for digital archiving, a phono-stage version for vinyl-intolerant amps, even a speed-changing version for those who can’t bear to switch from 33 to 45rpm manually. A

Rtba /razer.com Razer’s Blade Stealth notebooks have always been slim and light, but the 2019 model improves on last year’s laptop in a number of important ways. For a start it’s even lighter than its predecessor – and that was hardly a backbreaking

Sometimes the distance between ‘want’ and ‘need’ can be significant. Take television standards, for example. When Full HD sets first arrived, their 1920x1080 screens represented a big improvement in picture quality over standard definition and were s

Essential for the creative types out there, this intuitive tablet allows users to sketch directly onto drawing paper while the Intuos Pro system makes a handy digital copy that’s introduced directly to the digital workflow. It’s also an excellent mou

Rtba / honda.co.za Electric cars make up less than 1% of new vehicle sales in South Africa, and yet, if predictions are right, every car sold by 2035 will be an EV. Well, making the decision to switch sooner will be easier if the cars look as boy-

R6 400 (import) / fairphone.com The Fairphone 2 is a modular Android phone made using an ethical supply chain of conflict-free materials. The company also claims to promote good working conditions for production line employees. This includes membe

R2 800 / houseofmarley.com “Anyone can stick a recycled knob on a speaker and call it ‘sustainable’,” came the cries from the Stuff office when we heard about House of Marley’s latest Bluetooth speaker. Then we took a closer look at the eco creden

from R114 000 (import) / tesla.com It’s possible to be a Tesla owner without splashing out on an electric car that can make fart noises – thanks to the company’s clever home battery system. In theory, Powerwall stores free solar energy during the da

Rtba / mia.africa.com Xiaomi burst onto the scene with experimental phones like the Mi Mix. The company had been around for years before that, off the record, but suddenly a lot of us were desperate to import handsets with funky features from the com

R3 000 / .com/za Samsung recently revealed its latest wireless earbuds alongside the new Galaxy S10 smartphone range. They’re 30% smaller than the Gear IconX wireless earbuds, and at R3 000 they’re still the same price as their somewhat chunkier pred

A big reason to use a manager is to ensure your passwords are better. You can create new ones that are essentially unbreakable, and fiddle around with the password ‘recipe’ to cater for sites with specific requirements. Also, when you input existing

R14 000 (body only) / fujifilm.co.za Fujifilm’s X-T3 has been perched imperiously atop our System Cameras Top Ten for some time now. But with a body-only price of R24 000, it’s not for everyone. Hence the new X-T30, a stripped-down X-T3 for the mass

from R490 200 /toyota.co.za ■ Like a book, album, bed, or Miley Cyrus’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, you shouldn’t judge the new Prius by its cover. We’re not enamoured with its styling, but we’re also first to admit it’s a welcome update to a face th

R7 300 (import) / vuze.camera ■ There’s no denying the ingenuity of the Vuze XR: it’s a pocket-sized 360° camera one moment, with two lenses pointing away from each other, but can transform into a VR cam with two front-facing lenses. As far as we kn

from R1 708 000 / porsche.co.za ■ Porsche doesn’t do things in a hurry (although the cars tend to be rather good at hurrying), and a new 911 has hatched only eight times in 56 years. Given that new incarnations are so rare, and this one promised to

FromSoftware’s latest release looks outwardly similar to the developer’s ‘Soulsborne’ action RPGs… but it needs to be approached in quite a different fashion. In fact, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is arguably harder than any of its predecessors. Set in

A after numerous delays, the Terry Crews simulator is finally here, and if you’re an Xbox Game Pass subscriber you can download it gratis. Crackdown 3 has you once again playing as a nameless ‘Agent’ (you can switch been a number of male and female

Where there’s muck, there’s brass. At least that was the idea behind the two previous Metro titles, which were obsessed with sewers. With Metro Exodus, things have opened up immensely. It picks up two years after Metro: Last Light, setting the stage

You may have seen the term ‘designed by committee’ thrown at any number of Games as a Service (GaaS) offerings before. They tend to enrage and enthral gamers in equal measure… and never has the term so perfectly applied to a single title. In its desp

When you sit down to play a 2D platformer, the temptation is often to race to the finish line as nimbly and stylishly as possible. In Yoshi’s Crafted World, you’re encouraged to take your time. You see, the debut Switch outing for video gaming’s most

from R19 000 / samsung.com/za It may be bigger but is it really better than the Galaxy S9? We’re going to have to go with ‘yes’. The Galaxy S10 is trying something new with the punch-hole display. The screen is excellent, the Exynos innards are spe

R19 000 / huaweistore.co.za Just when you thought it was safe to upgrade your phone on contract, Huawei comes along with another sizzler. The P30 Pro may have the best smartphone camera we’ve ever seen, with 5x optical zoom (thanks, prism!), and u

from R14 000 / myistore.co.za The latest iPad Pro isn’t cheap, but it’s a mobile powerhouse like no other, with a diverse and rich app ecosystem, tons of power, a gorgeous screen, and the kind of focus on creativity and productivity that just doesn’t

R53 000 / lg.com/za LG’s new 65C8 is all screen from the front. From the side, though, it’s barely there. LG’s intuitive webOS er… OS guides you through a very simple setup. After that you just have to bask in the reverse-glow of inky OLED blacks,

from R26 300 / dell.co.za The original XPS was already a great, lightweight laptop, then Dell gave it a welcome Windows 10 refresh. With improved battery life and performance, it’s the thinking person’s Ultrabook and a whole lot more. We’ve tried t

R1 250 / nintendo.co.za Why bother splashing out over R7 000 on a games console when you can get the SNES Classic Mini for a fraction of that? Especially when you get 21 classic titles pre-installed on this nostalgia-inducing machine, including th

R31 000 / myistore.co.za The Mavic 2 Pro keeps all the good bits of the old Mavic Pro while making genuine improvements in almost every area. Aimed at the enthusiast willing to spend a little more to fly and film a little further, it’s undeniably p