Another story I arrived late to are the padded lamp posts on London’s Brick Lane. As the story goes, this street, which has notoriously crowded sidewalks, is the location of countless injuries caused by people bumping in to lamp posts and other obstacles while texting. So the city used this street to test a new idea for making streets more safe — padded lamp posts.
This is wrong in so many ways, but you have to love such a low tech solution for dealing with the ramifications of such high tech devices.
UPDATE: There is a software solution! TXT’N'WALK app (http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/news.phtml/23288/txt-n-walk-mobile-app.phtml)
I will continue to post observations, inspirations and anything else that I come across in the city or online which may be relevant to urban computing, one of the domains of my final project
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