This New Device ‘Bricks’ Your Phone When You Enter Your Bedroom
Brick Night is a new Bluetooth-enabled device designed to automatically block distracting apps on a user's phone when they enter their bedroom. It aims to improve sleep quality by creating a physical boundary for digital usage.
Why it matters
It highlights the growing market for 'digital wellness' hardware aimed at mitigating the negative effects of constant smartphone connectivity.
If you struggle with doomscrolling when you should be sleeping, this new Brick could help.
Brick Night creates a location-based boundary between you and your phone. Brick Brick, the maker of my favorite device for curbing doomscrolling, launched its first new product since the Brick on Thursday. Called Brick Night, it was designed to automatically block apps the moment you enter your bedroom to promote better sleep.
While 87% of US adults sleep with their phones in their bedrooms, studies have found that screen time in bed is associated with poorer sleep quality. Brick Night has the potential to prevent this.
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