Addicted to Scrolling? This 6-Pound Phone Case Might Help.

We’ve all said we should spend less time on our phones, then end up reaching for them anyway. One neuroscience startup decided to make that impossible. Their solution weighs six pounds and requires an Allen wrench to remove.

Matter Neuroscience calls it the 6-Pound Phone Case, a stainless-steel brick designed to make your phone so inconvenient you’ll eventually stop checking it. The case clamps around your device, making it too heavy for one hand and too bulky for a pocket. “At six pounds, your hands and arms physically get tired while using it,” the creators wrote on their Kickstarter page. “That fatigue reminds you to put the phone down.”

The company admits the idea started as a joke. But when early testers reported cutting their screen time nearly in half, that’s when it became a real