Enthusiasts who predicted that there would be Wi-Fi transmitters in every street lamp have backtracked.

ECONOMIST: Spectrum policy

New kinds of street lamp provide better light for around 20% less energy.

ECONOMIST: The lights are going out all over Britain

The researchers have found, for example, that a single street lamp can affect the view of the night sky for an observer up to 200km away.

ECONOMIST: Going, going, nearly gone

Although each step produces only enough electricity to keep an LED-powered street lamp lit for 30 seconds, Kemball-Cook says that the tiles are a real-world "crowdsourcing" application, harnessing small contributions from a large number of individuals.

CNN: Green sidewalk makes electricity -- one footstep at a time

Some winding blocks away from my home base, I spotted in the light of a street lamp a promising trove an unusually large pile of curbed junk that could have passed for an installation in a Chelsea gallery.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield

Quentin Tarantino, whose name has been linked, rightly or wrongly, with a genius-level IQ, plays a blind street preacher who runs into lamp posts and falls down the steps of a subway entrance ...

CNN: Not-so-divine comedy