The touchscreen-enabled glove was clearly a great invention. Having cold hands is a miserable experience, and for many of us, so is leaving our Snapchats unattended. As with many forms of clothing, however, gloves are becoming smart garments, capable of more than just being a layer of phone-compatible insulation — I’m thinking of products like GoGlove.

When the tantalizing idea of a hoverboard was first introduced in Back to the Future II, it quickly became the holy grail of sci-fi gadgetry. After all, the combination of a skateboard and the ability to fly — albeit at a very low altitude — was one almighty convergence of coolness, only added to by the apparent impossibility of such a technology arriving any time soon.