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ery few places where one\u2019s not allowed to have it. It helps a great deal, but it\u2019s ever more damaging as well. Today we face something that\u2019s called \u2018app addiction\u2019 and there are more and more studies showing the damaging effects apps have on our brains.<\/p>\n
Analytics company Flurry released some data that shows that people in the U.S. use their mobile devices for five hours a day. More so, the tech-support firm Asurion found that Americans check their phones 80 times a day on average. Even more so, you\u2019ve surely heard that Silicon Valley parents (from the ranks of those who built these apps and devices) are raising their kids to be tech-free.<\/p>\n
One Brooklyn-based company has proposed an alternative to the tech monopolies back in 2015 and now they\u2019ve returned with a second model\u2014Light Phone 2 is everything a smartphone isn\u2019t, an intentionally limited gadget. The device is a 4G LTE phone with a black and white matte E-ink display and only a few features extra compared to an old school landline: it can send and receive messages, set up an alarm clock, and maybe it will be able to calculate a ride home and perhaps even listen to your favorite playlist. It can also store a decent contact list, too. That\u2019s it\u2014no social network tools, ads, email, games, or whatever else to distract you from the reality of life.<\/p>\n