The system uses electrodes to collect brain signals and learn which areas of the brain become active when the patient thinks about walking.

The app provides social networking as well as the ability to book and pay for beauty treatments.

The Fairphone 3 uses a modular design to cut down on waste and enable the phone to be easier to both recycle and repair.

The system saves time and prevents theft, but also reduces the need for wrapping and labelling individual fruits and vegetables.

The Real app targets Chinese college students, a prime audience for shopping and social media sites.

Veeve, founded by former Amazon and Google employees, want to bring the Amazon Go concept to the level of shopping carts.

Handy aims to improve muscle and nerve function more efficiently than traditional stroke treatment.

ProPublica’s Collaborate software makes crowdsourcing data a seamless process when used for group projects.

Drift’s new chatbot can engage in conversations even when customers go off-script.

A UK start-up is aiming to automate commercial food preparation with robots.

Eye Tool is a platform that allows users to virtually try glasses on before they buy.

Users can choose up to 20 different habits and get useful reminders to help them track their activity.

Using a custom marker set and retro-reflective body markers, The Imaginarium Studios’ system records actors body movement in intense detail.

Opposable Games’ proprietary OneTouchConnect system allows cross-platform devices to recognise each other.

KageNova’s spatial360 software turns existing 360° virtual reality scenes into fully interactive immersions.

The glasses have lenses that can absorb infrared light, preventing facial recognition systems from capturing an accurate image.

Created by Reach Robotics, MekaMon is a consistently evolving entertainment platform.

The app allows users to video chat and share their screen with a friend in real-time.

Transdermal optical imaging can analyse a 30-second video of a person’s face to measure blood pressure.

The language, ink, allows gamers to have their stories turned into basic-level, playable web pages.

AlterEgo can detect what you say when talking to yourself, even when you’re not moving your mouth.