Japan enters the era of smartphones and 'dumbwalking'
--Japan has entered the 'dumbwalking' era: Will it change Japanese phone etiquette, notably the best in the world?---
BBC | July 14, 2014
...More than half of all Japanese now own a smartphone and the proportion is rising fast.
But with that rise has grown another phenomenon - the smartphone walk.
It's that glacial pace people only adopt when they're staring at a phone screen - their head down, arms outstretched, looking like zombies trying to find human prey.
Researchers here have found people don't just walk more slowly when they're on smartphones, their field of vision is reduced to 5% of what it should be, and some are worrying what this means for Shibuya.
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↑ Japanese schoolgirl doesn't quite get the concept of the VLC media player on her keitai.