Lock8 is a bike accessory currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter — offering keyless unlocking, location tracking and access sharing.

In times of crisis and budgetary restraint, EU governments still need to value innovation and new solutions to tackle the increasing pressure on European healthcare systems, experts say.

Since 2008, there has been a rise in health inequalities and they will continue to increase as current governments are running unsustainable health systems.

Governments must therefore innovate to make healthcare accessible, while still cost-effective and of high quality, experts say.

For business executives, separating true technological breakthroughs from wishful thinking is inherently challenging. As Danish physicist Niels Bohr stated, “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” Most of us can recall examples of misguided technology predictions great and small, such as the Internet bubble and the Segway. Perhaps the best example today of an innovation whose surrounding hype may be obscuring its substance is 3D printing. It thus provides an ideal case study on the importance of applying time-tested forecasting tools before getting too caught up in new-technology excitement.

Toronto-based startup Bionym has launched an SDK for its forthcoming identity-authenticating wristband, Nymi. It said today that more than 6,000 developers have registered their interest in building software that hooks into the heartwave-sensing bangle. Thus far, it’s managed to pre-sell more than 7,000 of the $79 wristbands, which are due to ship in Spring 2014.