Argentinian football club Atletico Tigre is planning on launching a microchip season ticket. Paperless tickets are already the norm in transport, leisure and at many cultural events, but would people be willing to swap tickets on their phones for chips under their skin?

Making it to your hotel after a 12-hour haul hardly inspires you to gather together your documents and spend 20 minutes attempting to check-in with the hotel receptionist. GTRIIP plans to free us from this first world problem with a check-in service that uses the iPhone’s biometric functions.

With DuoSkin, wearables are no longer just an accessory – they become part of your skin. Developed by the MIT Media Lab and Microsoft, these temporary tattoos use gold leaf to create aesthetically-pleasing user interfaces. But to what extent are we comfortable turning ourselves into cyborgs?

The Apple Watch launched in April 2015 with an array of sensors to measure a user’s pulse, movement and location. Touted as a health and productivity aid, the watch is the most mainstream product to gather bodily data in the form of biometrics. But should brands know our every measurement?