Attribute the LP’s desirability to whatever mix of qualities you care to combine: the retro/cool aspect, the superior sound quality, a size and shape that encourages wonderful sleeve art (and liner notes big enough to read). Witness the rebirth of the turntable.
Hi-fi is now old enough to celebrate with its longest-surviving companies nearing the century mark, while the elite level of high-end audio itself has been around since circa-1950.
The car of the future won’t have wings, and it won’t be able to do your thinking for you. Well, not all of it. It will be voice-controlled, have high-speed wireless broadband serving an on-board WiFi hotspot, allow you to download apps, and provide in-car TV and streaming video. It may even have Back to the Future-style lifting doors.
“When are we going to get decent broadband?” is the connectivity question our tech guru, Arthur Goldstuck, hears most often. He has a few answers…
Social networking has gone mainstream in South Africa. More than that, it continues growing at a rate never before seen in any service outside of the cellphone industry.
There are many industry-shifting, epoch-making moments in the history of any technology. In the world of mobile phones, the evolution of the smartphone means such shifts have become the expectation rather than the exception.
We’d all be much better off if phone-charging cords were banished from existence and phones could be magically charged on some sort of pad or surface. Well…
Docking stations, super thin laptop and iPhone accessories. We offer another round up of some of the coolest gadgets and apps.
For anyone with an iPad that’s tried Atari’s badass lineup of retro 16-bit games, you know it’s still a pale shade of what we’d consider a real fix. Step up your game with the iCade iPad Arcade Cabinet.
Until we reach that universe far, far away, there’s another way to store all the knowledge and wisdom Yoda carries: with these awesome Star Wars-character USB Flash Drives.
Cameras, coffee, designer beds and punctuality – these are a few of a Playboy’s favourite things.