The advances in technology mean the boundaries of what we can expect to achieve are constantly being tested, and while our smartphones and tablets are already capable of things we could only have dreamed of five or six years ago, it seems the creative folk among us aren’t content to rest on their laurels.

Smartphones begin to be truly smart when they start to creep into our lives in ways other than for calling people or browsing apps. One example is a new system that allows the locking and unlocking of doors via a smartphone, whether that be an iPhone or an Android device.