Imagine a world where lamp posts double as 911 operators and solar-powered trash cans compact waste on city streets. Where public park benches serve as phone-charging stations and robots go to school ...

Installation artists / DIY'ers Rebecca Stern and Rees Shad came up with an intriguing response to a certain January 2007 Aqua Teen Hunger Force-related bomb scare in Boston you may have heard of — ...

"Talking" lamp posts have decreased the amount of dog fouling that occurs on the Baldoyle's seaside walkway by 80 percent. Audio devices installed on the poles emit verbal warnings when detecting ...

Delete Tinder and uninstall Bumble: you can now have meandering text conversations with London’s lamp posts, post boxes, bollards, bus stops, phone boxes, trains, boats, utility boxes, bridges, ...

Talking lamp-posts are set to be installed across Dublin city to help tackle dog owners refusing to clean up after their pets. Dublin City Council is proposing to use pre-recorded messages in areas ...

IF YOU heard a lamp-post talking, you might think you were going mad. But speaking signs have been springing up to help blind and partially-sighted people. Newcastle is one of the first places in the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Imagine a world where lamp posts double as 911 operators and solar-powered trash cans compact waste on city streets. Where public park ...