A TikTok video showing a fully transparent smartphone has puzzled viewers, leading to discussions on social media. The creator, Catherine Goetze, later clarified in a follow-up that the device is just an acrylic slab shaped like a phone, intended to test the idea of reducing smartphone addiction by simulating the presence of a phone. Although it offers no smartphone functionality, Goetze found the item somewhat empowering, though it did not significantly decrease her actual phone usage. The object sells for $25 online and is referred to as the 'methaphone.'
Although it really is a product for sale, the TikTok video - which got 3.5 million likes and more than 17,000 comments - is not all it seems.
He told me what he wanted to test if we're all so addicted to our phones... Could you potentially curb someone's addiction by replacing the feeling of having a phone in your pocket with something that feels exactly the same?
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