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This Chinese city has a sidewalk just for smartphone addicts

By Brian Molidor1 min readGoogle News

Tools like hands-free kits and Siri might mean that you don’t have to have your face constantly buried in your iPhone, but for most people the reality is that using a smartphone suggests your focus is not entirely on the real world around you. Tackling this problem head-on is a place called Foreigner Street in Chongqing city, China, which has installed a special walking lane for smartphone users, just as might be the case with a cycle lane elsewhere.

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