Gillian Terzis

The adult fantasy land of the Las Vegas Strip offers freedom from responsibility and shame, and ultimately, freedom from being yourself.

As virtual reality technologies have improved, the pornography industry was always going to be an early adopter, but are its claims of sex therapy are too far-fetched?

The life-changing hearing aid that connects via Bluetooth to doorbells, appliances and fire alarms.

The Californian desert city of Palm Springs, former haven of Liberace, Sinatra and Monroe, transports the visitor to a timeless Space Age.

The latest guide at the Art Gallery of Western Australia is on a mission to change perceptions with her strangely beguiling ways.

An app offering an in-house butler service is the latest business promising more free time. But is time really the problem?

Is the latest virtual reality just advertising dressed up as empathy?

The fight against the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne illnesses turns to genetic engineering.

A mood app hopes to avoid social media's corporatised environments of self-promotion.

The latest wearable tech promises to alter our mood at the touch of a button, delivering electrical pulses to the temple.

Meet the team of biohackers useing a DIY lab to probe the possibilities of modifying natural biology, and the ethics of doing so.

Augmented reality promises to alter our perception of the world and ourselves, leaving us hanging on by our fingernails to what’s real.

If 'trolling' is an inescapable product of anonymity, could it also be a wellspring of creativity?

Emotional analytic apps to let your smartphone choose the company you keep.

The open source website Genius has expanded to take in annotations on any text, from poetry to presidential addresses.

If a robot can be made to think like a worm, how will we define living and non-living beings?

Can custom apps and video games really help us build up our mental muscle?

A new wave of social media apps is aimed at enhancing romantic relationships, like a Facebook for two.

A Silicon Valley company claims it can solve world hunger and obesity with just an oily thickshake. 

A US company plans to use our social media presence to create a virtual avatar that will live on after we die. But will loved ones want to message us after we’ve departed?

As we build new worlds to inhabit online, such as Minecraft and Second Life, can we avoid re-creating the problems of our real lives?

Can statistical analysis about our habits and moods provide tools for better living? The Quantified Self movement is counting on it.