Weighed down by your wallet? Purse cluttered up with cards? Then perhaps Kerv is the wearable you’ve been waiting for. This smart ring enables people to make payments without a counterpart device, while also functioning as an Oyster card and a repository for emergency and medical info.

With two-thirds of the world’s population expected to live in cities by 2050, it’s a good job there are more ways to get around than ever. But Whim is the first service to pull them all into one place – letting users find and pay for the best combination of options for any journey in a single app.

We may have faster and larger planes than in the past, but the air travel experience is still notoriously slow. With this in mind, JetBlue Airways and Delta Air Lines are swapping paper and digital tickets for biometrics in the hopes of increasing convenience without sacrificing security.

Swedish start-up hub Epicenter is embracing workplace innovation by implanting microchips into the bodies of its employees. Is this technological push a natural progression in the monitoring of happiness and efficiency in the office, or is biohacking people’s bodies a step too far?