Over the past year or so, Apple and Google have started adding features to their smartphone operating systems to… encourage you to use your phone less. It’s kind of weird that we’ve reached a point ...

Google’s big plan to combat tech addiction involves some basic origami. Announced this week, the company’s new “device” involves printing out information that would normally be accessed through a ...

It feels like you're never far from your phone these days, and while having the entire accumulated knowledge of the world in your pocket is certainly useful, being constantly connected can also be a ...

Now, the company is going a step further. It’s proposing that you replace your Android phone with a paper one—at least for a day. The whole premise should be absolutely insufferable. Instead, it’s a ...

Researchers from Queens University presented a flexible, e-ink display at the Computer Human Interaction conference that they believe could one day replace smartphones. Called the Paper Phone, the ...

You can write on it, bend it or use it as a touchscreen. An electronic paper smart phone created by researchers in Canada could be a glimpse into the future of mobile tech. Ultra-slim and physically ...

A few months after launching the first in a series of Digital Wellbeing Experiments designed to help smartphone addicts use their phones less, Google is back with a few new unusual ideas. The most ...

Things could be different in 2020. Tech companies like Google, whose success depends largely on the screen addiction its devices helped create, are offering users new ways to disconnect. See: Google’s ...

At the Computer-Human Interaction conference, a flexible mobile device dubbed the Paper Phone was on display. It uses the e-ink technology found in the Amazon Kindle, and it recognizes 10 unique bends ...