Skin patches: the ultimate wearable

Electronic skin patches could well be described as the ultimate wearable electronic devices. They deploy electronic components, including sensors and actuators with appropriate processing, energy storage and communication, directly onto the body, typically attached...

Cosplayer Philip Odango for Comic Con

Philip Odango, award-winning international cosplayer, designer, producer and author from the US, will be participating in Comic Con Africa 2018 and will be one of the international judges for this year’s Cosplay Championships. Odango makes his own costumes and...

IoT set to go mainstream in SA

The key barriers to entry in the IoT space – battery power and cost – have fallen away with the arrival in South Africa of low-cost, low-power solutions. “While machine to machine (M2M) solutions have been in use in some sectors in South Africa for...

How SA compares in security preparedness?

In a study by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Fortinet in 2017, over 400 global decision-makers across a wide variety of industries, responsible for the security of their organisation’s critical infrastructure, were asked about the security risks they are...

Tips on how to save

The instability of the global economy, together with the low growth in the country and most recently, the petrol and VAT increases over the past two month are seeing South African consumers faced with the challenge of finding effective ways to manage their money and...

Liquid Telecom, AfriLabs partner on innovation

Liquid Telecom has partnered with AfriLabs, a network organisation of 100 innovation centres across 30 African countries, to explore new ways to support local start-ups and promote sustainable innovation across Africa. From digital skills training and workshops to...