Stuff Magazine South Africa

Stuff Magazine, the world's best-selling gadget & technology magazine. Stuff is your expert, up to the minute guide on gadgets, gear, technology - and how to play with them. Our expert reviews and tests sort the best from the rest in digital cameras, cellphones, computers, games, fashion, wheels, lifestyle products and the weird and wonderful. Stuff is a magazine about technology, but it’s more about how a product looks and how it fits into the reader’s life.

WELCOME

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OUR MONTH • What this issue has brought us by way of geekery

HOT STUFF • ALL THE BIGGEST STORIES FROM PLANET TECH

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COMING SOON

TYKE A LOOK AT ME NOW • Xiaomi CyberDog ¥9999 (approx R23 000) / mi.comom

OTHER WEIRD XIAOMI STUFF

TAG HEUER CONNECTED X SUPER MARIO • $2150 (R30 600) / tagheuer.com

GAMES

Lotus Emira FUEL IF YOU THINK IT’S OVER

STREAM • That shiny jacket and unusual hairstyle can only mean one thing: far-future sci-fi intrigue! Plus assassins, priests and horny teenagers…

DON’T THIS MISS

Flip to be square • Samsung’s latest clamshell phone has come up with a new angle: a price that isn’t terrifying. But is this a classic case of foldy form over function?

Flip your rig • The dual-camera setup is good, but not mindblowing, especially when compared to the best phone snappers

Mini meme MODDIN’ CLASSICS OF GAMING • Think you’ve seen everything that long-established games and genres have to offer? These six mobile formula-twisters beg to differ…

VERY CRISPNESS EVERYBODY • “Today everything exists to end in a photograph,” said Susan Sontag – so you may as well make it a decent one, with a little help from Stuff’s guide to the best gear and techniques for every kind of shooting

STREET • You don’t need to be winched into a live volcano – there’s plenty of interesting stuff to shoot just down the road

NIGHT • Darkness is a camera’s arch nemesis, but some are better at dealing with it than others – like this fab full-framer

NATURE • Yeah, your cat’s cute – but with 8.7 million species of living things sharing our planet, maybe you can diversify a bit?

PORTRAIT • Every face is unique, but lots of pictures of them aren’t… so we’ve picked out one camera to make yours stand out

FOOD • Find it impossible to eat anything without taking a picture of it first? Here are some options to whet your appetite…

VIDEO • If a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine how many you get for a 4K film. Lights, camera, action!

OR FOR EVEN LESS…

Don’t fear the cheaper • They’re worryingly affordable, but these two newcomers to the true wireless crowd both come with audio pedigree

GOOD MEH EVIL

Welcome to the club • The Land Rover Defender 90 is a gateway drug that leads to extreme social distancing, in the shape of comfortable off-grid travel

Get off the road, buddy • The Defender 90 feels like a tank when roaming a parking lot but leave the tarmac and it wakes right up

Just look at the time • TicWatch’s first entry in SA is a solid one but does it have what it takes to compete with the big names?

Instant cameras • Self-printing cutey-cams are more popular now than they were the first time around… so which of these three is going to help you decorate your fridge?

Jack of all trades • Samsung’s new smart monitor is what you’d get if you smashed a PC monitor and a smart TV together

Luxe like we made it • Fitbit has launched a fitness ticker that looks more like a piece of jewellery than a watch. But will it be able to keep you on track?

Building better humans • Everyone’s looking for fitness shortcuts but there’s no substitute for...