The Blloc Smartphone Turns Off Color to Tune In Focus
The Blloc smartphone aims to turn down distractions by switching to a completely monochromatic user experience.
Minimalist doctrine dictates we liberate ourselves from things, all in the hopes of preventing these things from perpetually owning our attention. It’s a thoughtful ideal many of us aspire to. But in reality it isn’t a multitude of “things” consuming our attention, but one specific thing: our phones. The Blloc smartphone proposes we give up something seemingly essential ? color ? offering a monochromatic experience to deliver a more focused relationship between user and device.
The Blloc isn’t the first attempt to address device-induced attention deficit disorder. The Light Phone 2 and the Nokia 8110 banana phone both subtract features from the smartphone template down to the bare minimum. But like a Pandora’s Box, once one has become accustomed to the multitude of features of modern smartphones, it’s difficult to return to using a device only capable of calls and short messages. We may aspire toward simplicity, but not simple.
Thus, instead of attempting to compromise our expectations, Blloc attempts to redirect our attention, offering a full fledged smartphone experience filtered through a monochromatic user interface. Blloc OS is built on top of Android 8.1, loaded with an essentials list of “commonly used services and apps” optimized to keep in tune with the Blloc OS experience (an experience s...
Minimalist doctrine dictates we liberate ourselves from things, all in the hopes of preventing these things from perpetually owning our attention. It’s a thoughtful ideal many of us aspire to. But in reality it isn’t a multitude of “things” consuming our attention, but one specific thing: our phones. The Blloc smartphone proposes we give up something seemingly essential ? color ? offering a monochromatic experience to deliver a more focused relationship between user and device.
The Blloc isn’t the first attempt to address device-induced attention deficit disorder. The Light Phone 2 and the Nokia 8110 banana phone both subtract features from the smartphone template down to the bare minimum. But like a Pandora’s Box, once one has become accustomed to the multitude of features of modern smartphones, it’s difficult to return to using a device only capable of calls and short messages. We may aspire toward simplicity, but not simple.
Thus, instead of attempting to compromise our expectations, Blloc attempts to redirect our attention, offering a full fledged smartphone experience filtered through a monochromatic user interface. Blloc OS is built on top of Android 8.1, loaded with an essentials list of “commonly used services and apps” optimized to keep in tune with the Blloc OS experience (an experience s...
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