Minwook Paeng, an industrial design student at London's Royal College of Art and Imperial College, was apparently in agreement when he designed this strange robotic Third Eye that helps people walk down the street without crashing into poles while staring at their phones.

According to the article, which you can find by clicking here, Paeng designed and built the Third Eye to fulfil the requirements for his Innovation Design Engineering degree. This is a largely satirical project, which Paeng makes obvious by referring to distracted pedestrians as "phonosapiens." But good satire is always a reflection of reality, slightly distorted to bring focus to the absurdities of human culture. In this case, smartphone distractions are a real problem.