This $12 Plastic Brick Shaped Like An iPhone Wants To Cure Your Smartphone Addiction
If you have $12, are addicted to your smartphone, and are too insecure to be seen without it, you may be interested in the NoPhone, a recent Kickstarter project that's already raised over $2,500.
But if you're looking for innovation, look elsewhere, because the NoPhone is literally a plastic brick designed mimic the shape of an iPhone 5, claiming to be a "technology-free alternative to constant hand-to-phone contact."
The Kickstarter page is complete with some tongue-in-cheek testimonials features like "battery free," "shatterproof," and "waterproof," there's even accompanying testimonials. "With the NoPhone, my eye contact skills have improved 73%" says David H., while Whitney R. claims that "Because of the NoPhone, I haven't drunk texted my ex boyfriend in one whole week."
While the Kickstarter campaign uses smartphone addiction as its angle of supposed genuine intent, it's hard to shake the feeling that this was all a joke thrown together as an ironic experiment.
After all, it's tough to think someone looking to take a break from their phone would find clutching a plastic replica any more soothing than just powering off their device.
Some of the offers, like the $5,000 pledge level, sound like glorified excuses for its founders to travel for free, hidden under the guise of a personal delivery from a NoPhone founder "anywhere in the world."
The NoPhone still has a ways to go, as it needs to raise $30,000 by Oct. 11 in order for the project to move forward.
If you're looking for a new ironic purchase, you can pick up a NoPhone for yourself right here.