Bridging the gap between virtual and physical play, Lego has created a game called Fusion that merges real-world brick building with tablet-app play. It lets kids build an object with Lego bricks and then take a picture of the design to continue playing with it in the virtual world.

When you crave ice cream, who wants to wait for it to soften? Häagen-Dazs have released a new kind of ice cream topping, and it’s not what you’d expect. Concerto Timer, a musical ‘melt-time’ app, aims to entertain hungry customers until their ice cream is ready to eat.

The company has been bought for $2 billion. With an angle to keeping a finger on the pulse of emerging technologies, Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the companies intend to develop virtual reality outside of gaming, into communication, entertainment and more.

Project Glass is a lightweight, context-aware pair of spectacles which projects your social and search data onto your field of vision, as and when you need it. Its purpose is to make technology invisible so people can start living again.