David de Villiers, who heads up a mobile payments company and is launching Zapper – a new mobile payments app – says he moved heaven and earth to get his hands on Google Glass. It’s more than a geeky toy, however: since he focuses so heavily on mobility, he argues, he must be at the forefront of any new developments in the mobile space.

I had been trying to get my hands on the latest innovation from Google for a while and at last my extensive lobbying with everyone I knew who could be remotely connected to Google paid off.