Mindfulness is having a moment. I don’t know when it started, but one day my very not-woke friend was into meditation, and then another day my mom was reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and telling me I should only own objects that spark an emotional reaction.

Now, a phone that’s launching on Kickstarter is trying to tap into that same movement. The phone is called Siempo, and it’s based around the idea that we’re not only addicted to our phones, but we’re also not happy about that fact and crave control.

The device’s software aims to give us time away from our most important gadget. Siempo runs on a custom OS based off the Android Open Source Project and is marketed as a “mindful” phone. It doesn’t include an app store. That…

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