The next trendy device is one specifically designed to disable the rest of your trendy devices. The Brick is one of many phone-locking gadgets to emerge in response to people getting concerned about their screen time; it locks off parts of a phone’s operating system and apps once the phone taps a small plastic brick. According to SimilarWeb data, downloads of the Brick app rose from 14,000 last October to 33,710 in November, then 103,632 in January, and there were 59,729 downloads in May alone.


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