This word beat "merkeln" to the top spot. Photo: DPA What do you call someone who stares gormlessly at their iPhone for hours on end? A "Smombie", apparently, which was chosen as this year's German ...

Six months after two Swedes poked fun of their smartphone-addicted peers with an unofficial road sign, it's become an unexpected educational tool, one of its co-creators has told The Local. Showing a ...

The other day, I watched from across the street as a pedestrian waited for the walk signal at a crosswalk. He was on his phone. The light turned green. Absorbed in his device, the man didn’t notice.

Have you ever seen zombies walking in the streets or elsewhere? Excuse me? What a ridiculous and absurd question. No one has seen them except in horror films and “zombie walks,” because a zombie is a ...

Are you a phubber or a smombie? You're almost certainly a member of the bowed head tribe. New phrases can skewer our smartphone obsessions, says Tom Chatfield Welcome to Future Now Your essential ...

A city in South Korea, which has the world's highest smartphone penetration rate, has installed flickering lights and laser beams at a road crossing to warn "smartphone zombies" to look up and drivers ...