🇦🇺 Australia 2h ago · Brigid Delaney

I’m addicted to checking my phone. Could a blocking device stop me?

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I’m addicted to checking my phone. Could a blocking device stop me?
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Physical phone blocking devices, powered by NFC wireless technology, are becoming a popular solution for doomscrolling. Brigid Delaney puts one to the testWake up, 100 messages from group chat overnight about something – what? another assassination attempt; a village destroyed in Lebanon; the football result in England; the weather in Iran being manipulated; the pesticides causing lung and bowel cancer, so everyone who eats salads is now at risk of cancer; meditate for 20 minutes, then fire up x

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