The NoPhone: This (fake) smartphone does absolutely nothing and people are still buying it
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“Is it a phone? Is it not?”Well, turns out it’s a bit of both.
When we invest in a smartphone, we expect it to do a lot of things- make calls, send texts (and drunk-texts), consist of a battery that lasts decades, take pictures, edit those pictures and upload them on every social networking site ever invented, right?
But, what about a phone that does absolutely nothing and is a complete waste of your money?
Would you buy that?
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A result of a successful Kickstarter campaign started last year, the
Thus, the phone that will set you back by $12 has no camera, no music, no screen, no memory, no operating system, no battery, no Bluetooth. But, there’s a silver lining- it is toilet-bowl resistant.
After the concept started gaining popularity, the makers came up with two versions of the NoPhone.
The first was called the
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This is what is included in the NoPhone Zero· One NoPhone ZERO
· More of your attention
· Real friends
And, this is what’s NOT included in the NoPhone Zero
· Texting Your Ex-Boyfriend
· Location Tracking
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· Browsing History· Data Overages
· Dead Batteries
· Phone
The second version was called the NoPhone Selfie and it took care of the most basic need of every individual with a face- the need to take their own picture and marvel at it. Hence, this upgrade of the NoPhone comprises a stick on mirror, so that you can show off the picture you took to the friend next to you or just yourself.
Who is the brick-like NoPhone for you ask?
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It’s for you. It’s for me. It’s for everyone with a tech addiction.
“It’s a technology free-alternative to constant hand-to-phone contact,” NoPhone’s Co-Founder Van Gould said in an interview to TIME.
The makers also advise ‘Give someone who loves their Phone, a NoPhone’ and ‘Change the life of someone you care about tomorrow by pre-ordering the NoPhone today.’
And, we seem to agree on their satirical comment on this device-obsessed culture.
To summarise, the NoPhone is a not-so subtle physical reminder of how excessively we use our phones and how we scatter our focus five minutes at a time.
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And, going by the hilarious reviews posted by the users, the NoPhone seems to making a lot of difference.
"Now I can eat food without taking photos of it. Thanks NoPhone," Andra J confessed while Monica P happily stated "With the NoPhone, my eye contact skills have improved 73%,"
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