Thing of the day: Substitute Phone - substitute smartphone to combat addiction
Devices / / December 19, 2019
Even those who do not suffer from dependence on a smartphone, developed a subconscious reflex to check your gadget, when someone in the vicinity receives a message from his pocket and pulls out his phone. To combat this overwhelming desire to serve Substitute Phone accessory invented by designer Clemens Schillinger (Klemens Schillinger).
He is a highly simplified version of the smartphone, repeating the size and weight of the gadget. Against this, however, the similarities end. In Substitute Phone no screen or any electronic functions. Since it is impossible to call, but you can svaypat, zumit and to scroll.
Baseline tactile simulated due to the stone balls embedded in the plastic housing. These beads are free to rotate within the grooves, allowing to simulate swipe gestures, zoom and scroll, you are using your smartphone. There are several models Substitute Phone with different types of gestures.
According to the creator, this kind of substitution therapy has a positive effect. Proof of this can be considered the experience of the writer Umberto Eco, who got rid of the desire to smoke, replacing the usual stick tube. In the same way your smartphone works trick: in fact important to us and the process of tactile interaction by giving a kind of satisfaction.
Now Substitute Phone It is set within the framework of the Vienna Design Week and it can not be bought. But Schillinger promises to launch an accessory to the sale in the future.