Phone addiction is real—as evidenced by a quick glance down the street, in the subway, even at the dinner table—and is one of the reasons why Apple developed a watch: so we would look at our screens less and be present more. For some, however, a smartwatch isn’t enough—it still leaves room for fiddling and distraction. Artist and designer Joe Hollier and mobile phone industry veteran Kaiwei Tang(who’s brought products like Motorola Defy, Droid 4, Razr to life) are taking control over how they want to interact with tech in their own lives: by creating a phone designed to be used as little as possible. The Light Phone only makes and receives calls (and tells the time). It works with your existing phone so that calls get forwarded, so you can leave your “personal computer” at home when you go for a jog, take a lunch break, escape for the weekend; for those moments when Twitter and email can wait, but calls from your very pregnant sister can’t. And the Light Phone is pretty much everything your current smartphone in rotation isn’t: it’s the size of a credit card, has 20 days of battery life, and meant to be timeless—not replaced every year
via Cool Hunting
Images courtesy of the Light Phone
