A venture launches from Shetland this week — far away from San Francisco or Shoreditch

Mirrors offering fashion tips will terrify consumers, not seduce them

From Netflix to TED to podcasts, there are too few hours in the day — but help is at hand

Slippers, razors and even gas boilers offer ripe pickings for profit and disruption

Inspired by the Great Exhibition, a V&A show provides a glimpse the future

From parking to shopping, today’s machines and programs could revolutionise our world

Fully connected societies will share intelligence — and travel in driverless cars

Hyper-local produce continues its gentle growth but remains strictly for the discerning

Kialo is a strange proposition in an age of Trumpian tweeting

Plenty of small-scale tech shows promise at the Consumer Electronics Show

Loubie and her ‘pet influencer’ chums are big business

The children of 1966 got it wrong and so have today’s naysayers

Older technology has its place as it is often more practical than the latest thing

Successful people send short emails — I wish I could be like them

Seeing China as a pot about to boil over, I understand how irresistible it is to aim for harmony

I am entranced by Monument Valley — here are its life lessons

Consumers’ suspicion of tech giants could see a gap in the market for such products

Isolated communities benefit from What3Words’ specific location technology

Real progress comes from human imagination

A refocusing of the ‘world’s workshop’ might be a progressive step all round

We overestimate innovation in the short run but underestimate any longer-term impact

In a contactless world, coins seem archaic. Have they had their day?

Hours are short, money flows — surely this enterprise is too good to be true?

It is the corniest word in business. But might the P-word sometimes trump an MBA?