methaphone was seen by more than 200 million people in a few short days.
It all started with this video that went viral on TikTok, Instagram and X.
Learn more about methaphone’s origin story and buy your own.
@askcatgpt Completely clear phone spotted in San Francisco on May 14…?!? Wtf?????? 🤭🤫 Link in bio for more deets. (NOT SPONSORED)
♬ original sound - CatGPT
@askcatgpt I’m sending out a batch of methaphones to people who have ideas for (safe) social experiments they’d like to run with them— break it out on the subway? Show it to a 5 year old? Replace your phone for a week? The only catch is that you have to write or document your experience in a post online (e.g. blog post, medium, substack, YouTube, tikTok, Ig, etc) The goal is to keep the conversation going. If you’re interested, fill out the super short survey at the link in my bio! Let’s keep the conversation going! #tech #methaphone ♬ original sound - Noah Kahan
Leave your phone without the cravings or withdrawal
We carry our phones everywhere. It feels strange and unsettling when we can't feel them. We twitch, worried we've lost something.
For 50 years, heroin addicts have used methadone to help break their addiction. Now you can step down your dependency on your mobile device with this: methaphone.
methaphone can help you manage cravings and withdrawal symptoms. It can fill that hole in your back pocket. It can fill that hole in your hand. Opioid addicts have used methadone to help step down from dependency, and now you have this.
methaphone looks like a simple acrylic slab — and it is. But it's also a stand-in, a totem, and an alibi. It's the first step on the road to freedom.
Take it instead of your phone. Let it ride along in you jacket or your jeans. If you're anxious, rub the surface with your thumb. When you need to avert your gaze, it's there for you to pull out to look through.
You may have read about it…
methaphone
Features
- Translucent by design
Light and imagination pass through it uninterrupted - Fully compatible with innate curiosity
Optimized for your own agency and emerging ambition - Do Not Disturb reimagined from the ground up
Runs on the Eternally Unbothered OS - Powered entirely by ambient light
Display adjusts instantly. Dark mode is really dark.
Team
methaphone is a collaboration by Eric Antonow and Greg Hochmuth.
