Up to 40% of a city’s electricity use may be dedicated to street lighting. But what if lampposts could do more than illuminate pavements? What if they could get brighter under dark clouds or give a lost driver directions? GE has created bulbs that work harder and longer for cities of the future.

The city of Wiesbaden is the least bike-friendly city in Germany, thanks to bike-hostile infrastructure and a lack of respect for cyclists. Radwende, a crowdsourced journey-plotting app, aims to gather big data on cycle routes to improve city planning.

LEGO figures dive into them and Superman and Wonder Woman hang out in them. These are the infamous Mumbai potholes, and The Fill in the Potholes Project wants to draw the attention of local government by attaching stories to some of the city’s worst.

It’s 8am and you’re late for work. You rush into the kitchen for a bowl of cereal only to find you’ve run out of milk. At that moment the doorbell rings. It’s a delivery of groceries that you didn’t order, including a carton of milk. That’s the future according to Poppy and Amazon Dash.