Say No to Notification.
It is difficult to overcome the temptation of using smartphones, as they were purposely designed to be addictive. Tech giants often suggest software solutions to prevent digital addiction, however they are not built to be effective enough to overcome the temptation. After all, the goal of all smartphone applications is to make people stay on that page as long as possible. In order to foster digital wellbeing, software solutions are not enough. Here I suggest the real solution to smartphone addiction: notification, a device that physically locks your phone.
Finally get away from your smartphone.
No-tification allows users to physically lock their phones until a certain number of notifications.Users can set the number of notifications. Once the device hits the set number of notifications, it will pop the phone out, just like the mechanism of a toaster. The project focuses on the exploration of mechatronics.
Toaster disassembly to study the mechanism
Electronic components (Arduino) and coding
Working prototype: detecting number of notifications
CAD modeling & interior mechanism assembly
Exterior assembly
