25 April 2012

Digitise your home movies

Don’t leave your most important video memories stranded in a box in the garage. Here’s how to digitise your home movies. 

20 March 2012

Personal prototyping: 3D modelling (and printing) has come of age

If it’s good enough for Boeing, it’s good enough for you: 3D modelling (and printing) has come of age. 

01 March 2012

2012 International CES: PM’s pick of the coolest tech

January’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the most important event on the international tech calendar, featuring the hottest new products from hundreds of companies, large and small. Here are some of the 20 000-plus gadgets that caught our attention during one exhausting and fascinating week in Las Vegas. 

16 February 2012

Build your first robot: step-by-step-plans

Step-by-step instructions on how to build your first robot from scratch for about R1 000. 

26 January 2012

PM’s 10 best tech concepts for 2012

Pascalisation, commonly known as high-pressure processing (HPP), is a method by which food is subjected to extreme water pressure – sometimes up to 5 500 bar – inside long, cylindrical metal chambers.  

02 January 2012

Smartphone cinematography

Cellphones (and flip-style cams) are the new camcorders. Here’s how to get great video out of not-so-great hardware. 

02 January 2012

Motivation: The game of life

It’s a trick businesses have used for years: if you want people to stick with something, make it feel like a game.  

01 December 2011

View from the top

Throwable panoramic camera 

01 December 2011

PM lab test: Mac vs PC

The desktop operating system may soon be dead. Apple’s latest release of OS X, Lion, shows a heavy influence from iOS, the operating system found on iPhones and iPads. 

01 December 2011 -  By: Anthony Doman

Best of British

Just recently, I wrote to the South African distributors of Marantz* audio products remarking on the faithful (and continuing) service from my CD42 compact disc player.