TL;DR A Kickstarter campaign wants to curb screen addiction with a six-pound stainless steel phone case.
The 6-Pound Phone Case is intentionally heavy, pocket-unfriendly, and screwed together.
Matter Neuroscience says the weight creates a physical feedback loop that helps reduce screen time.
Many of us have tried to spend less time on our phones. You might have tried to hide your device in another room, use app timers, or let Android’s Bedtime mode turn the screen gray when it’s time to wind down. Some of you may have even bought a timed lock box to physically prevent you from accessing your handset during certain parts of the day.
If you’ve tried all that and still find yourself doom scrolling, one Kickstarter campaign thinks it’s time for a different approach — specifically, a more physically painful one.
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The 6-Pound Phone Case is exactly what it sounds like: a stainless-steel slab that turns your smartphone into a dumbbell. It’s the creation of Matter Neuroscience, a small team that claims to have found a bizarrely effective way to curb compulsive scrolling. The case started as a joke, but after early tests apparently led to “significant decreases in screen time,” the group decided to see if anyone else would be interested in one.
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The team’s simple reasoning is that holding a six-pound (2.7kg) phone is exhausting. Your hands get tired long before your brain does, creating a physical feedback loop that makes you put the thing down. The result, they say, is less time on social media and more time doing literally anything else.
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