Innovation

IBM’s Watson supercomputer is coming to SA healthcare centres

You might recall IBM’s supercomputer Watson beating a quiz game of Jeopardy in 2011. The event marked a pivotal moment in our world’s history…

12 new African innovations you need to know about right now

A while back, we told you about the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. The prize, sponsored by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), covers…

Danish-developed robotic tongue out-tastes Belgian winetasters

The annual World Blind Wine-Tasting Championships took place in the southwestern French town of Leognan in 2013. The settlement is near France’s wine-growing capital…

The Internet of Things: Imagining our connected future

What do your fitness tracker, your fridge, car, thermostat, phone, TV, gaming console and the weather service have in common? They are all connected,…

5 significant innovations our smart homes will create by 2022

From entertainment systems and washing machines in our homes to transport technologies and environmental control outside of them, connected devices open up a world…

7 ways to make a dumb home smarter

The buzzword “smart home” fits nicely alongside terms like “The Internet of Things”. But the smart home is tangible, it is something. Best of…

Siemens is challenging these students to innovate real solutions to real problems

This is pretty cool. Siemens has just announced the finalists in its Cyber Junkyard competition, which challenges students to design and build engineering solutions…

Innovation: It’s all about seeing David in the block of marble

Think about the great innovators for a moment. They’re different. Whatever field they’re in, they don’t just look at the world, they see it….

New Japanese webcam tech could be the future of CG, gaming [Video]

This is beyond cool. It’s a new form of webcam to animated avatar technology, courtesy of Yasue Mitsukura and the good people at Keio…

Ex-Webby boss Tiffany Shlain on how the internet is revolutionising film

For more than 15 years the Webby Awards, known as “the Oscars of the Internet”, have rewarded innovation online. Famous for their five-word acceptance…

Eulerian Video Magnification – the new video tool that will blow your mind

Google Research earlier shared some breakthrough research to come out of MIT. This time, the research does not just influence the world of social…

Watch SA-born entrepreneur’s SpaceX vehicle blast off online

The trope of geeks dreaming of space is a well-worn one. Thing is it’s not exactly without basis. Today one of those geeks might…

Beyond connectivity: The ‘gigabyte revolution’

The latest trends in mobile are leading the “gigabyte revolution” which will take us to the one gigabyte per user per day by 2020,…

Want $4m? Come up with the next big idea in energy

We need to fix energy. That much is obvious. Fossil fuels are slowly choking the planet, nuclear is falling out of favour and although…

Five minutes with 22seven founder ahead of Net Prophet talk

Online money management system 22seven blew into our collective consciousness at the beginning of this year under a controversial storm. Most of that controversy…

Virgin Galactic: Space is much closer than you think

Space: the final frontier, one small step and whatever other clichéd expression you might care to think of. Little by little though, it’s becoming…

4 Lessons from the PSFK Conference on creativity, business and technology

It took some time to digest the insight given out by speakers at the recent PSFK Conference in New York, but the information imparted…

5 Tips from Clay Shirky on creativity and innovation

Clay Shirky — the writer, teacher, and consultant on all things online — recently told an audience of innovators, tech enthusiasts and creative minds…

What kind of disruption does Africa’s tech scene really need?

What is it really to disrupt, or what is a disruptive innovation? And to put it in the African context, what does ‘disruption’ mean…

Memeburn’s best moments from SXSW 2012

With South by Southwest Interactive now all but forgotten in the wake of the tunes from the 2 000 or so musicians who took…

Is the flying bird man real? [Video]

A video’s been making waves around the web today. It purportedly shows a man achieving flight using nothing but a pair of wings, some…

Want to kill the status quo? Innovate

I was recently asked, “how do you find innovators?” It’s an odd question really, one that I hadn’t thought about before, but one that…

Why competition for the SKA Telescope is important for tech

A recent article in Nature states that South Africa has won the backing of the SKA Site Advisory Committee to host the SKA Telescope….

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Aura Edition Review: A Sleek, AI-Powered Ultrabook for the Work-Anywhere Era

WeThinkCode_ and South Cape TVET College Bring Software Engineering Training to Rural SA Youth

Flow launches the world’s first and only shoppable audience marketplace

Fintura Heads to Silicon Valley After Winning SA Startup World Cup

Capitec and Mama Money Launch Fintech Partnership to Empower Migrant Workers Across Africa

Flow Unveils World’s First Shoppable Audience Marketplace – A Fintech-Led Revolution in Digital Targeting

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel