The local lag on so many things from internet speeds to online access to streaming media is beyond frustrating! The good news is that telecommunications companies have noticed and are trying to do something to remedy the situation… This could soon be a reality.
This is real innovation, and the whole engine was made by a 3D printer…. out of this world!
Check at those toothy grins! Everyone seems so excited… and they should be, shouldn’t they?
If you have tried to translate something and you know it just doesn’t look right but you don’t know how to fix it, this could be the solution…
And we thought humans were smart….
See what it’s like to play tennis like Roger Federer, albeit with less sweat and strain.
If you have always thought that this new-wave of high-end alarm systems that can be operated and monitored from a smart device are only for the rich and famous – you’d be thinking right. Until now.
It’s happy days for the blind community, nevertheless. They get to have cell phones and experience what the rest of the Planet has been enjoying for 20 years.
While Snapchat are turning down offers of $3 billion, it seems they’ve been doing some acquiring of their own. They’ve just bought the company AddLive. and that just happens to involve South Africa.
Forget the hype of the Go-Pro – this new little gadget is going to rock your world. In a 360 degree view. Centr is a new UFO-like shaped device that you get to control with your smart phone – and it lets you capture everything in a 360 degree view. It’s like a Go-Pro, but […]
Thank you science! A new experiment using mice has shown us that there might be a way to keep us young….FOREVER. New Studies published in Science & Nature Medicine show us that when scientists took the blood out of young and spritely mice and injected it into the bloodstreams of old and creaky rats, the old rats […]
Trust the Chinese to do something quicker, faster and more efficiently. Worker bees that they are. So what the industrious Orientals have managed to do this time, is literally build ten one-storey houses in a DAY by using 3D printing technology. The 3D printers in question are massive, being10 meters (33 feet) wide and 6.6 […]
Germany. The land of Eisbeins, beer festivals and legal prostitution. In fact, the lucrative sex industry in Germany is calculated to be worth over $1 Billion per year. And now, a new app created in Germany and for the German market, Peppr, is being marketed as being very much akin to how your average ‘dating’ […]
One thing that is for sure, is the insanely high speed of technological advancement of every-day items we use. For most of us in our early 30’s, it seems like only yesterday that we were jogging down the street with our Walk-Mansitched to our belts or even playing a cassette tape in our cars. We […]
Africa’s booming tech industry is mainly dominated by males, but there are couple of women who have founded innovative tech companies, including these women.
‘Deepface’ sounds like a Bond villain or his plot to destroy the world, and it should. Using the world’s largest photo gallery, a la Facebook, the company has created a program that can determine whether two photographed faces are of the same person with 97.25% accuracy. If you consider humans have 97.53% accuracy doing the same task, this program is mind blowing.
Meet Chris Dancy, the 45-year-old known as the most connected man in the world. Boasting between 300 to 700 systems running at any given moment, all capturing real-time data about his life, Dancy’s use of technology makes the average tech user look like a gorilla with a stick.
The audience members at the CeBit convention’s opening were in for a surprise. Guests that included German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron, were welcomed by an articulate robot thespian. Meet RoboThespian, the greatest threat to overpaid actors.
Africa is plagued with internet connectivity issues. This brick shaped device, aptly named BRCK, hopes to get more Africans online and more importantly, stay online. The device started out as a project to solve an African problem, but it may end up being used by hipsters who frequent coffee shop hotspots.
As you sit crawling the internet on your smartphone, desktop or snazzy laptop, it is easy to dismiss the work going on behind the scenes to get you your internet fix. Instead of cursing the offspring of your internet service provider when your router light goes off, or when your cat pictures are taking too long to load, take a look at the bigger picture.
Finally the kryptonite of the smartphone is being tackled. Yes, dihydrogen monoxide will no longer be the bane of smartphones around the world. With this nanocoating, evil water molecules don’t stand a chance.
What do all Star Wars geeks crave? Their very own Princess Leia hologram. This Polish company has already created a fully functioning hologram projector aptly named the Leia Display System, and they are busy developing a holographic smartphone.
Creating a successful app is similar to climbing Mount Everest. According to statistics you have a 22% chance of maintaining your app users’ engagement. The odds of summiting the tallest mountain on earth are 29%. Here are a couple of essential tips to help you improve your chances.
Companies like Google and Tesla may be developing driverless cars, but Rolls-Royce is upping the ante by developing drone cargo ships.
Samsung’s new Gear Fit wristband is the latest pawn on the battle front between the two tech giants, Apple and Samsung. The compact, curved screen smart wristband from Samsung becomes the company’s third wearable device following the launch of the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo.
Remember that scene from ‘The Dark Knight’ where Bruce Wayne mapped a building using a smartphone? Well that shit just became a reality.
In the spirit of keeping up to date with the length of time we humans have before our robotic overlords take over, here’s a watch list for companies at the forefront of robotic innovation. As they say, keep your friends close and your impending robotic overlords closer.
Gone are the days of driving around endlessly looking for an open parking spot. This site shows, in real-time, the available parking bays in Stellenbosch and a couple of other cities and neighbourhoods in South Africa.
Rumours have been floating around the web of late regarding the iPhone 6. Apple keep their new projects under tight secrecy but someone, perhaps a disgruntled employee, always slips out a pic or two under Apple’s radar. These leaked images are of the iPhone 6, claims blogger Sonny Dickson.
Online education in South Africa has joined a global revolution with Apple’s latest decision to open up iTunes U Course to another 70+ countries from around the world.