Wearable technology has always seemed a stretch too far. Sure your smartwatch does cool things – but don’t you feel like a massive idiot?
Snapchat CEO, Evan Speigel, isn’t doing himself any favours of late. He still hasn’t apologised for the security breach that affected 4,6 million Snapchat users, and now he’s involved in a row with Forbes.
Danielle Bruckman lost her phone in January last year, but it resurfaced in the most hilarious way possible.
The Nordic Society for Invention and Discovery is a whacky, mad-scientist think tank that is as close as you’ll get to a modern-day Willy Wonka factory, and they’ve made a headset for dogs – a headset that allows you to hear what your dog is thinking.
American Furniture giant, Herman Miller, has been causing severe procrastination across America because of their instagram account.
Cell C’s online portal, My Cell C, experienced something of a lapse in security that allowed anyone with an internet connection to view personal information about many of their subscribers.
French architect and artist Stephane Malka have created an epic (and probably illegal) housing project for the homeless in Marseille, France. Appropriately titled “A-Kamp47”, the project allows bergies to go spiderman and make their homes on walls.
It’s time to get stoked! For those of you who believe the thrills provided by the standard Mini Cooper S are not enough – the Mini John Cooper Works is back to hot things up. And we have to say, it’s looking pretty good.
This may give you a semi if you’re an engineer, designer, or an architect. Meron Gribetz is the founder and CEO of Silicon Valley startup, Meta. Meta is dedicated to creating an augmented-reality headset that will let you interact with virtual reality objects in the real world.
For as long as technology has existed, people have had nightmares of Nokia 3330’s and microwaves becoming conscious, hell-bent warlords, enslaving us in our sleep. On a serious note though, with the growing capacity of self-aware, self-improving machines, maybe it’s a touch normal to be afraid. That’s what Matt Miller of the Washington Post seems […]
A couple of diligent ninth grade high school students, have made a small but important revelation that has garnered international interest among the geeks in the scientific community. Initially interested by the fact that they couldn’t sleep well when they had their cell phones nearby, but unable to access equipment to study human brainwaves, five […]
Look, you’re going to be embarking on some kind of travel pretty soon. Mere days stand between you and hours of flight, or driving. At some point – most likely for most of the time – you’ll want to stop speaking to people. That’s cool. Tune in, and tune out.
Google has released it’s 12th annual year end zeitgeist – a summary of the year’s key data points on the world’s most popular search engine. Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela and Oscar Pistorius topped the list of South Africa’s most searched for terms. Thankfully, Steve “Relevance” Hofmeyr didn’t make the top trending list in South Africa. Nelson claimed the top trending spot globally for 2013, while Oscar limped in at sixth place for most searched for people in the world.
Judging the success of an individual startup company is complex. Forbes has researched its way through swathes upon swathes of startup companies, in an attempt to quantify the most successful new businesses of 2013. This is their list.
It’s a race towards space between Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sir Richard Branson. In this clip, the South African-born CEO of SpaceX, and Fortune Magazine’s businessman of the year explains why he wants us to become a “multi-planet species”. We’ve got our money on the man who makes space sound sexy.
It always seemed like only a matter of time before Facebook users started questioning how much time they were expending online, and now the questions have started coming thick and fast from the group of people Facebook relies on most – the millinials.
SHUT. UP. eNCA has broken more amazing details pertaining to Thami Jantjie, the sign language interpreter who played air guitar through Nelson Mandela’s Memorial on Tuesday. eNCA reports that Jantjie faced charges of kidnapping, rape, attempted murder, and murder.
Second-hand smoke from traditional cigarettes contain more than 5,000 different elements – ranging from the extremely harmful to the not-so-benign. But what about second-hand smoke from e-cigarettes?
Yep. Uh huh. This story really IS getting better. Thamsanqa Jantjie, the man who interpretive-danced his way through Nelson Mandela’s Memorial service in Soweto on Tuesday has a very, very sketchy past.
On average, we spend about 40 hours a week at work. That ads up to 30% of our lives! So it makes sense that you choose carefully where you are going to spend that time. Glassdoor just released its 6th annual Employees Choice awards and technology companies rule the list with Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Google all making the Top Ten.
If you’re not eating, sleeping and breathing social media, it’s time to hop on board. Fortune Magazine’s predictions for social media in 2014 show that social media is transforming the way fundamental ways in which businesses function – which makes this set of predictions especially useful.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is the very best of us. Standing with ex UN Secretary General, Kofi Anan as he delivered a tribute to Nelson Mandela, Desmond reacts first with utter shock, and then casual dancing to the tune of his ringtone. Post by 94.7 Highveld Stereo. Slam that badboy on silent, Dezza. [Source : Facebook]
The failtrain just a-keeps-on-a-rollin’! Deputy Minister for Women, Children and People With Disabilities, Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu said in a media briefing earlier today that the owners of the firm that had been contracted to provide Thami Jantjie for signing at the Nelson Mandela Memorial in Soweto on Tuesday had pulled something of a ninja bomb. The owners […]
Unlucky! A South African man was accused of uploading a film to The Pirate Bay, and has since been arrested, according to CEO of the Southern African Federation Against Copyright Theft (SAFACT), Corné Guldenpfennig.
After relaxing some of the laws around gadget use inside planes, the US government is considering yet more aviation rule changes. But the American public seems to have already made up their minds.
This is a video of Jacob Zuma singing at ‘Kill The Boer’ at the ANC Centenery Celebrations in Bloemfontein, South Africa in January 2012. And who should be standing next to him, but the bogus sign language interpreter from yesterday’s Nelson Mandela Memorial at the FNB Stadium in Soweto. It’s actually too awesome. UPDATE: For those of you […]
Apple just loves spoiling us, and that’s why we love Apple. The company is giving iPad and iPhone users the opportunity to download FREE apps, with its end-of-year promotional app, “12 Days of Gifts”.
While Amazon plans to use ultra-modern drones in their Prime Air service, Groupon are going full-medieval with plans to launch a catapult delivery service.
It seems the Internet gods have heard our prayers. It was just announced that Skyrive, in partnership with MacroLan and Café Caprice, will launch free Wi-Fi for Camps Bay! Skyrove is aWi-Fi company in Cape Town that specialises in software solutions, and we would like to thank them dearly for the free Wi-Fi. Internet-junkies will be able to use 100MB of data per device per day for free, and, after that, extra data can be bought from Skyrove or one of its partners.
Google has just dropped their very own DIY-street-view-tool that lets you contribute to their global network of images with your own camera.