I was tossing and turning all night. My dreams were few and when I finally got out of bed in the morning, my exhaustion was through the roof. “Oh well, hopefully it’s nothing an extra cup or two of coffee can’t fix,” I thought as I stumbled out of bed…

After my disappointing experience with the Jaybird X3’s, I was forced to resume my perpetual quest for the ultimate headphones and to continue my search for the elusive audible companion to be by my side, day and night. Although my tastes were particular, my two requirements were simple — all…

One year after I moved from iPhone to an Android phone, Apple just announced their new lineup of shiny gadgets. Was it enough to convert me back to the Apple fanboy I was once? Not quite. Apple’s launch event yesterday was, dare I say, rather boring. Even though Apple products…

Call me old fashioned, but I like writing with a pen on paper, especially in meetings. I find it very impersonal to be separated from the person across from me by a barrier of laptop screens, and so I prefer to take notes “manually” in meetings. But I wasn’t born…

How spending more time with technology may help cure cellphone addiction How many times did you check your phone during the last movie or TV series you watched? If you’re like me, you probably had one eye on the TV and another on your phone — mechanically scrolling through one app after the next to see what is going on in…

(This short story is available on Amazon. The first chapter is available for free below, with permission from Vaughan Close) Gidlabeta was the first Sesotho phrase I ever learnt. It means “I’m going to hit you”. It wasn’t that Thembi was a violent person, not by any means. She’s the…

When you think about the future of urban transport, what do you have in mind? Flying cars? Self-driving Ubers? Personal drones? Although we may all be traveling around in one of these futuristic machines at some stage, I’ve already seen the future of urban mobility. And it’s a Bird. Anyone…

I may be biased, but within a few weeks after deciding to close down my startup in Johannesburg, I traveled to Israel to meet some of the most exciting tech startups around who are changing the landscape in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Cyber-security. And it made me realise that…

For those of you who don’t know me, let me introduce myself. My name is Antony and I am a headphone addict. I have my running headphones, my everyday listening headphones, my music appreciation / zoning-out / airplane headphones, my spare headphones (at my desk, in my car, in my…