“Thanks I died after dropping it on my face.”

A content material creator could have lastly discovered a bodily resolution to the trendy downside of telephone dependancy: make the telephone too heavy to carry.

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Logan Ivey, who runs the Instagram account @matterneuroscience, designed and 3D-printed a six-pound chrome steel case that he says minimize his each day display time by greater than half.

Ivey shared an Instagram reel in regards to the six-pound telephone case on Oct. 13, 2025. The put up has over 280,000 likes, and loads of feedback from social media customers who, like Ivey, are determined to place their telephones down. 

After experimenting with taping a dumbbell to his telephone, Ivey spent two months creating the cumbersome design, full with screws that require an Allen wrench to take away.

“I had this idea that if I taped my phone case to this five-pound dumbbell, then I would use my phone less,” he wrote on the textual content of his video.

Ivey shortly realized the dumbbell prototype obstructed his telephone’s digicam and was too straightforward to take away to successfully assist restrict display time.

“The idea is that a six-pound phone is physically too heavy to scroll on for long periods of time, and as a result, you’ll naturally have less screen time,” he wrote. Ivey added that the load of the case deters telephone customers from casually carrying the telephone round with them.

“You can’t as easily take it with you to the bathroom or on a walk. You have to actually leave it behind more often, which also means less screen time.”

After two months of use, the case has saved Ivey from two or three hours of scrolling a day.

“Isn’t it wild that this video is blowing up because we all realize smartphones are a f**king problem.”

The anti-phone case for the chronically on-line

In his video, the innovator defined the case is supposed to make a cellphone really feel extra like a instrument “like your laptop or your camera,” somewhat than “something that you instinctively pick up, and look at, for hours at a time.” Ivey mentioned he designed the case to seem like an ’80s brick telephone as a result of “back in the ’80s, phones were just tools and not addicting fake dopamine machines.”

Ivey even designed the case to be inconvenient to take away. In order to free a telephone from the 6lb case, you’re going to wish to search out an Allen wrench and unscrew 4 screws.

The six-pound telephone case resonated with individuals who know they’re spending a ton of time on their telephones 

“I would be so ripped if I had this.”

“I’ll take 20.”

“Thanks I died after dropping it on my face.”

“What we will do to fight phone addiction 😂.”

Logan Ivey didn’t instantly reply to the Daily Dot’s request for remark by way of e-mail.

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