The dumbphone revival and the broader push to reclaim our attention have zeroed in on one habit in particular: reaching for a phone the moment we wake, and again as the last thing before sleep. A growing crop of devices now promises to break that loop, from feature phones built purely for calls and texts to social-media-blocking flip phones like Commodore’s retro Callback 8020. Copenhagen-based Habity Design is tackling the same problem from a different direction, replacing the phone on your nightstand rather than the one in your pocket.
Love this thing, but not for $200.
150$. What a fucking gimmick. Just so you can have a smiley face next to the time
everything these days is a cheap trash gimmick. it’s all garbage
Like this part:
… all running fully offline with no app, account, or subscription.
Not this part:
The Habity clock is priced at 995 Danish kroner, or roughly US$150
But, this is coming from a guy who spent $500 on an Apple watch, which has ended up sitting next to my bed as a clock that displays the time when I bump the shelf. It’s cool that it doesn’t glow at me all night long, but not $500 cool.
Or buy a second-hand Echo Show 5 for peanuts, wipe Amazon’s OS, install Lineage, and make it look pretty with a 3D-printed enclosure.
https://www.printables.com/model/1769972-amazon-echo-show-enclosure
Bold of you to put one of those next to the place where you do the dirty. Even with the OS wiped, lol
I take great pleasure in acquiring big tech garbage and freeing it from those big tech shackles.
De-amazoned Echo? Sure
Ungoogled Chromebook running Linux? Don’t mind if I do.
Jailbroken Kindle? Thank you very much
Taking enshittified hardware and liberating it is rather satisfying.
