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Speaker 1: Talking to some younger people around Quincy Center about their

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Speaker 1: smartphone habits, and I'm sensing a trend here.

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Speaker 2: I always look at my phone no matter what. It's

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Speaker 2: got to be a boards of ten times a day.

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Speaker 2: I usually check it just from the time.

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Speaker 1: If that sounds like you, there's a new device that

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Speaker 1: could help. You may have heard about Brick. It's a

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Speaker 1: small plastic square that scans your phone, allowing you to

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Speaker 1: disable apps that you're using too much, and in order

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Speaker 1: to reactivate those apps, you have to physically scan your phone.

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Speaker 1: To Brick, there's no loopholes.

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Speaker 3: But I get text messages every now and then too.

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Speaker 1: You can still answer texts or make phone calls, use

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Speaker 1: other apps you don't find problematic, just the problem apps

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Speaker 1: that it takes.

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Speaker 3: Care of, and just have it to pick it up

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Speaker 3: and look at it.

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Speaker 1: Could be useful as we try to keep our peace

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Speaker 1: of mind during the digital revolution in Quincy. Jim McKay WVZ,

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Speaker 1: Boston's news radio