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The iPhone application I was trying is called Type n Walk; it’s supposed to make it easier to text while strolling by providing a visual, on the phone, of what is happening on the street a few feet ahead.

This summer, the American College of Emergency Room Physicians released a statement expressing concern about the issue, citing a Chicago doctor who was seeing a lot of face, chin, eye and mouth injuries among young people who reported texting and tumbling.

In Finland, home to Nokia, instead of hoping to persuade people to stop typing while walking, officials decided to act more aggressively at particular crosswalks where numerous texting pedestrians had been killed or seriously injured by trams. They installed crossing signals in the street itself, using embedded red and green lights that are visible to people looking down, instead of ahead. “People were paying attention to whether the light was red or green before they started to cross,” said Richard Eggleton, president of Marimils, a lighting systems company, “but they’d get distracted in the middle and not notice if the light had changed.” Read more at www.nytimes.com