Elon 🤝 Your brain

Good morning, afternoon, or evening, depending on where you are. Current status: Sipping coffee while listening to EDM. 

Here’s some news: 

🧠 Elon’s brain-tech company, Neuralink, has installed its first implant.

🤖 Yelp has launched a new feed – with a healthy dose of AI. 

🍎 Apple has already sold over 200,000 units of the Vision Pro. 

How many times have you checked your phone since waking up? No judgment here. I’m scrolling through TikTok as I write this.

Phone addiction is a real phenomenon, and according to a study by Reviews.org, over 80% of Americans state that they check their phone within the first ten minutes of waking up. Apps like Opal and Elqi exist to solve this by intervening on a software level. But what about hardware? 

It might seem counterintuitive for smartphone companies to want you to use their product less, but that’s precisely what the maker behind the Minimal Phone wants. It’s a scaled-down smartphone that wants you to prioritize productivity, simplicity, and your life outside of the digital realm. 

It swaps the bright OLED screen for an E-Ink Display and comes packed with a massively toned-down version of Android called MnmlOS. It ships with some basic functionality like phone calls, messages, email, and a select few apps like a calendar and navigation apps like Uber. 

Combined with its tactile QWERTY keyboard, it’s giving some serious Blackberry vibes, and all that scaling down isn’t just good for your productivity either. It’s good for your electricity bill as well since you will only have to charge the Minimal Phone once every four days. 

Only one question remains. Will you make the switch? 

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