Who daily looks at his screen more than sixty times, suffering almost certainly among mobile phone addiction. A Swiss woman has found a possible solution.
Even if it does not ring and no received mail, they stare constantly glued to their cell phones: Smartphone addicts. The phone is a constant companion, only at night put the persons concerned unit for a few hours out of his hands - when they sleep.During the day there is always something to look at, always something to check: the messages, the Inbox, the account balance. There are countless Apps that eat up our time: whether they Whatsapp or Angry Birds hot if we count them with our previous steps or running kilometers.
According to a study by the Organisation Flurry, which analyses mobile data, is considered to be addicted, who looks at his cell phone sixty times a day. 280 million of these "Mobile Addicts" there should be worldwide. The data are from July 2015. A year earlier, there were still an estimated 176 million addicts. The number of mobile phone addicts increases so rapidly. Meanwhile, there is even a term for people who prefer their smartphone in social situations. Phubbing A portmanteau of the words "phone" and "snubbing" (dt indifferent, absent.) ,
HELP IN PROSPECT
What would be more appropriate in this situation - or ironically - than an app throwing on the market, the person concerned is to cure them of their mania. A Swiss Hypnotherapist will have the perfect antidote found. Barbara Müller-Kütt developed in collaboration with psychologists, pedagogues, addiction experts and web developers a program to rid people of their smartphone dependence in a playful way. The bird figure "Beepy" encourages the mobile phone users in his new behaviors, praises the temporary abstinence from the display.
The idea for the app came therapist Müller-Kütt, as more and more parents came into their practice and reported by the obsessive use of their children with the smartphone. Open to the offspring the phone away, they would suffer from nervous tension, anxiety and downright panic attacks. Even the mother of six children and also face games addicted teens repeatedly in their practice, Müller-Kütt pondered a concept against the cell phone craze that can be repeatedly observed among adults.
CELEBRITIES AS VOICE SUPPORT
The makers of the app is aware that a complete turning away from the smartphone in the 21st century is neither possible nor sensible. So it goes with "Hypnobeep" rather of the addict to make aware their excessive behaviour and restrict the optimal case than the activities with the phone completely set. The stated aim of the app is to teach smartphone users a healthy working with your device. Just the thing for those thus "Phubber" Who Stare at the middle joint coffee incessantly on her iPhone.
The Bird "Beepy" is speaking the Berliner Synchron spokesman Santiago Ziesmer, known for his speaking roles as SpongeBob SquarePants and Steve Urkel. The app is available for free in the Apple App Store and Google Play. Due to the positive response, the developers are now working on an English version , Whether it will then also be in this international variation Spongebob as a voice in the fight against cell phone addiction, is not yet known.