Californian start-up Roost is harnessing the power of the smart battery to help people easily buy into the smart home market. Instead of purchasing costly new devices, Roost offers an easy and inexpensive way for people to upgrade products people already own, starting with smoke detectors.

To many, car-hacking sounds like an improbable danger from a distant future. But many new cars are connected to wireless networks, and are already vulnerable. Hacking is responsible for a third of car thefts in the UK. Is digital security now the car industry’s biggest challenge?

Over the next five years, the portion of vehicles on sale that are networked will grow from 10% to 90%. But as car and mobile brands wrangle over how this will work, a partnership between Visa, Pizza Hut and Accenture lets drivers order and pay for pizza from the dashboard.

Following Elon Musk's lead with the Tesla Model S that showed what an innovative car could look like in the future, all major car makers have been manufacturing digitally-connected cars their strategic priority. But if Gen Y aren't interested in these innovations, are they really the future?