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• At 2009.01.25 08:27, Edith said:
  

  RNIB Royal National Institute for the Blind (people)
  I Googled it!

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• At 2009.01.25 11:30, Beth said:
  

  That wasn’t what I meant :) it looks like an alarm box on a lamp post and it has a little blue light on - I was wondering if it gives out some kind of signal so blind people don’t walk into it - but that sounds a little unlikely! But thanks anyway :)

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• At 2009.01.25 13:26, Antonella said:
  

  Some time ago I read in the Yorkshire Post about talking lamposts which provide blind people with information about their location. Could this be one of them? Ciao. A.

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• At 2009.01.25 17:18, mo said:
  

  I was doing a bit of ‘looking up’ just last week and spotted the same lamp post (outside Monument Mall entrance?) and I wondered what it was too. It’s right next to one of those info booth affairs, so maybe there’s some connection as Antonella suggested?

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• At 2009.01.25 18:39, jafabrit said:
  

  would it have some kind of chip installed in it so that blind people using a cane or other device can pick up the signal and it transmits the info via audio to the person.

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• At 2010.11.14 19:42, Adam Barney said:
  

  http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/idc/papers/IDC-TR-2004-003.pdf

  We have a few of them around my home town, at first I thought it was some sort of listening device, to spy on us, but check the above link and I think it should answer your questions

  PEACE

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