In budding smart cities, street lights have become an important tool in helping spread 4G and cut energy consumption. Now Ericsson and Philips have developed a new concept called Zero Site, where street lights are fitted with a tiny mobile base station.

The arrival of the first connected light bulb will allow users to change the colour, mood and brightness of their home from their smartphone. In the pursuit of greater control and personalisation, the home is undergoing a digital redecoration.

As you leave for work, you yell “lock” and “camera on” to keep the house secure, before telling your vacuum to clean the bedroom carpet while you're out. It's not a sci-fi film - the technology is available now. But do we really want our homes to be controlled by technology?

DIY is associated with improvements at home, but what about fixing up the city? Hornbach's marketing campaign focuses on the idea that DIY should be not only take place in the home, but in the community too, by portraying how people can carry out improvements in the city.

Maybe you’ve seen them before: kids dangerously running across cities, jumping from roof to roof and doing backflips on the steps of public areas. While 'Parkour' has been prominent in the media for years, figures show it's now surpassed skateboarding in popularity.

In a connected world, networks are a useful source of information. Waze, a network of 28 million commuters united by their desire for up-to-date information, shows how constant connectivity can often be most useful when serving immediate needs.

Seoul has embraced peer-to-peer businesses and become the sharing economy’s model city. Now, the Sharing City initiative is turning it into a blueprint for city governance. But what makes Seoul ideal for this experiment? And what’s really driving Koreans to embrace sharing?

Some argue that iBeacon has the potential to completely change the way we interact with environments, from retail outlets to museums – and others even claim that it could “change the world forever”. But what makes it so special?