The eyes have it: how technology allows you to speak when all you can do is blink

Developments in eye-gaze technology – which converts minute movements of the eye into spoken words – are opening up undreamed of opportunities for people with motor neurone disease

Can an app really provide effective birth control?

Technology that tracks women’s fertility has been hailed as being more effective than the pill – and without side-effects. Is this a genuine revolution in sexual freedom?

Michael Acton Smith: ‘We want to show meditation is common sense’

Stress led the creator of Moshi Monsters to meditation and to create new app Calm, which he aims to make the biggest brand in mental fitness

Is your new phone really your friend?

Our hardwired tendency toward laziness means once we’ve been persuaded to adopt certain pseudo-conveniences, we won’t want to give them up

Fit in my 40s: ‘A DNA test is like going to a fortune teller, with science’

These tests tell you things you would you never know about yourself in a lifetime’s observation, things you would never even think to ask

Photography saved me. Staring down a lens, I re-ordered painful memories

After the breakdown of an abusive relationship, I lost a sense of myself and how I existed in the world. A Canon T-50 helped me find it

Does ‘phone separation anxiety’ really exist?

Researchers last week warned that nomophobia – a phobia of being without your smartphone – is affecting everyone

Watches, monitors and lights – seven of the best gadgets for runners

Then market is saturated with new tech that can help keep athletes – whether veterans or newbies – safe, entertained and informed. Here are some of our favourites

Learning morality through gaming

If you’re looking for answers to life’s big philosophical questions, try playing a video game, says Jordan Erica Webber

Sleep gadgets: our writers put them to the test

From sunlight lamps to white noise devices, we roadtest popular gadgets to see if they can improve our sleep