The Methaphone Is a Phone (That’s Not a Phone) to Help You Stop Using Your Phone

At the beginning of this year, Eric Antonow was in a coffee shop with his family with his family, and calls on to reach for Twitchy. Relief of their pockets – a cool, thin plate was still there. He would need a medical solution for detox from his phone a day, as an addictive, like an addictive to a hit for a hit. There was an opioid addiction metadone. Need iPhone addiction … MethaPhones.

“It was a joke, but I got two laughs of my teenagers with gold,” he says. “I was like, ‘I will go to the bit.” “

Antotow, a former marketing executor in Google and Facebook, calls for half a decade, calls “Sneaky Toys“There is a project in the online shop”The key to listening“To show that someone draws attention and a Vinyl for silent thinking20 minutes of silent silent in each side (not required to be required).

Thus, during the days of the last joke, ChatGpt in the form of a phone in the form of a telephone in the form of a telephone: or a transparent rectangle that may appear. The original generative sketch has appeared in a more realistic design: like a glass, 6-inch tiles of clean acrylic, which are round corners such as iPhone and green edges. Antotow gave an order for examples and started IndieGoGo campaign For the metaphone: “Leave your phone without reluctance or withdrawal.”

The first metaphons were sold for $ 25 with a crowd cutting campaign.

Eric Antonow’s courtesy

The dilemma of the smartphone, we all want to use less of our phones, but we have a lot of little. Apple and Google suggested in the form of several life savers in 2018 Self-regulatory means approve Screen time limitHowever, most of the screens came out of the window during the pandemic, where a window turned into a window. Now a man hoping to draw attention is trapped between the two traditional choices: minimalist “a dumb phone” or surrender to dopamine pedigree feed. In both cases, the phone earns.

In response, a cottage industry has emerged to offer cutting tools. There are applications with symbolic names such as Freedom and Be focusedwhich blocks the distracting content. Beginners like Brick and Wake up Offer Physical NFC “buttons” to lock and open addiction applications. (UNPRAGE’S COOFOJER, Jorn Rigter, like people’s instagram and work applications, use equal to the device to block social applications such as glue.) There are YudrA locked bag to prevent phone use in courtrooms and concert halls. In some prices, postmodern prices have a growing bunch of “dumb phones”.

You can buy stickers like app signs.

Eric Antonow’s courtesy

Unlike these solutions, the metaphone does nothing. This is more statement: This is not a phone. However, in a technological extreme culture, as a project, ozemptic, as in the epidemic of the screen fat.

In May, the first group of metaphroons came to an antowo-response to an affair. One buyer was Catherine Goetze, which placed a video about a metaphone on 400,000 followers in Tıtok. In your videoGoetze stops straight in San Francisco Boba store, like everyone, but instead of spinning his phone … a clean acrylic tile. Commentators became wild with hypothesis. Was Nokia Prototype? One Black mirror the trailer? More than 53 million were viewed in the video for five days.

After the video of Goetze, Antowow says the metaphone is “mass sold.” (First, 100 units, 100 orders sold A limited release, for $ 25.) Although plans to reset, they say that the future of the metaphone is less than individual procurements that are less than larger experience, a restaurant that offers a metaphone in the menu is less than a restaurant to have lunch without distracting. The phones are more than portals to other people, and other measures are portals. “Thus, the counter-shells are not only ‘Oh, I should not forget to use my phone on the table,’ he says.