Gadgets

On-the-spot printing from a smartphone. Printers are fare from extinct, and keep being reinvented, as the new Instax smartphone printer shows. Three years ago, Fujifilm startled the market with the Instax Mini Link, a portable printer designed specifically for smartphone photos. Now, it has released a second generation of the device, the Link 2, which draws on the learnings of the original, and adds enticing new features.

Nokia enters rugged territory and Nokia’s first rugged phone ticks many of the handset boxes, but leaves a few wanting. The rugged smartphone market, catering for people working mostly outdoors or in harsh environments, has been dominated in the past decade by the CAT brand.

The Reno 8 Pro 5G is currently Oppo's premium smartphone - the phone certainly makes a good first impression.

An active smartwatch that automatically charges in sunlight is a boon for outdoor enthusiasts. Garmin’s Fēnix 7S Sapphire Solar takes multisport smartwatch performance to a new level, with a combination of astonishing battery life and solar charging.

To navigate an increasingly challenging economy, and position themselves for long-term growth, small business owners need new processes, ways of working and technologies to boost their productivity. Over 80 percent of small businesses rely on printing to run their business, according to a survey of small business owners conducted with Morning Consult.

LG’s Tone Free earbuds bring us several of those ‘why-was-this-not done-before’ moments. A wireless earbud is a wireless earbud is a wireless earbud. Apple, Samsung and Jabra compete annually to raise the bar on in-ear sound quality. As a result, it becomes increasingly hard to differentiate between the numerous models on the market, and the purchasing decision is usually based on price or brand loyalty.

It is common knowledge that blue light from screens is bad for sleep, but it is uncommon to do something about it. Innovative new glasses could change that.

As phones become less differentiated, their target markets become more important. Tecno has been making inroads across the African continent for the past decade with affordable phones that still contain high-end specs.

The new flagship smartphone from Samsung changes the rules of photography. Legendary pop artist Andy Warhol once said: 'The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do'. Warhol lived and worked in an era when the output of a camera was the final word, or picture, on the subject being captured.

The Logitech Brio is the webcam to rule them all. Most integrated laptop webcams provide a poor visual experience for those watching from the other side, as they are at either 720p or lower resolution, resulting in grainy or low-res video.