Two thirds of us suffer from nomophobia – no-mobile-phone-phobia. And whether at work or out with friends, it’s true that when your phone runs out of power, at the very least it’s inconvenient. McDonald’s is combatting this by installing wireless charging points.

It’s predicted that in 2015, one billion wireless Internet of Things devices will be shipped, and sales will be worth £6.5 billion. Swedish-designed Flic is angling for a slice of this market. But are our homes becoming tech-saturated, our gadgets gathering dust? Does Flic’s pitch resonate, or is a gadget to manage our gadgets the last thing we want?

About 7,500 iconic red buses carry over six million London passengers each weekday - and with new Wi-Fi connectivity, commuters can catch up with work emails. But do they want to be ‘always on’? Will they miss their down-time staring out the window on the top deck of the 73?

IKEA’s catalogue is arguably more popular than the Bible, with 198 million copies printed in 2013. However, in order to showcase its latest PS collection, IKEA Russia hacked Instagram to catch the attention of the style-savvy, urban Millennials the collection is designed for.