When Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel crooned and harmonised their way into folk music history with “The Sound of Silence”, featuring the now-famous lyrics, “hello darkness, my old friend”, they certainly weren’t singing about load-shedding, but rather solemnly...

Winter is here. For some, it signals a welcome reprieve from the often-stifling South African heat and brings with it a certain cosiness, while others might not be so keen on the arrival of Jack Frost and his frigid ministrations. Whatever your feelings towards the...

We all know that there are times and situations where being punctual is everything. Whether it’s to make a good first impression, or to maintain the equilibrium of our daily routine, no one likes running late or, even worse, being rendered completely unable to make an...

Whether customers or employees, people are the lifeblood of any organisation. Sure, a business might make furniture, fix computers, or, as in our case, manufacture industry-leading security equipment, but, in the end, it’s flesh and blood human beings that make the...

When technology first became the primary propellant behind societal progress at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, it was largely a matter of utility, of the ends justifying the means. The innovations of the day were resource-heavy and devoured power with a...

Technology is constantly changing and evolving. We are forever making new discoveries, breaking new ground, innovating and exploring. To quote the celebrated English poet and painter William Blake (1757-1827): “What is now proved was once only imagined”. Indeed, in a...

When our brand new D5 SMART sliding gate motor was launched to an eager public at the CENTURION-hosted Access Automation Expo earlier this year, it was presented as a “blockbuster” product and, like a true blockbuster, it is reshaping and redefining the “genre” in...

As South Africans, load shedding has become such a big part of our lives that it has spawned an entirely new brand of local meta-humour predicated on poking fun at the paucity of power. But, while we may make light (pardon the pun) of an increasingly dire situation,...

You know that euphoric, elated feeling you experience when you dig into a huge piece of chocolate cake or finish a big assignment at work? That’s your brain’s reward centre at work; or, more specifically, the presence of elevated levels of dopamine, the...

Imagine, for just a moment, that you’re in the market for a new car. You’ll probably take into consideration things like fuel economy, spaciousness and after-sales support. But we’re willing to bet that there’s one thing that’s hundred percent non-negotiable,...

Against the heady backdrop of what some scholars are calling the Golden Age of Innovation, an era in which new technologies and innovations converge in a digital revolution that is transforming entire industries, CENTURION has innovated a fully-intuitive gate...

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once said that he wanted to “make a ding in the universe”. This was a powerful expression of his sincere desire to innovate, to disrupt and to create a brand that would revolutionise technology and reshape society. In 2020, seventeen...