{"id":119287,"date":"2025-05-21T08:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T08:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/119287\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T08:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T08:15:09","slug":"completely-clear-phone-stumps-the-internet-what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/119287\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Completely clear phone’ stumps the internet. What is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A viral video showing a woman scrolling through a transparent device resembling a smartphone has left social media users stumped. Is that a new phone? The video was posted by TikTok user @askcatgpt. She can be seen standing in a shop in San Francisco, with a device that is completely clear.<\/p>\n

The caption also calls it a “completely clear phone”. People started guessing what kind of phone it could be. If it is a phone, how could it have nothing inside it?<\/p>\n

Some even likened it to the “Black Mirror” world. Another user stated how it would get even harder to find his phone.<\/p>\n

It might look like a prank video, but the device really exists and is also up for sale, Mail Online reported. The influencer, named Catherine Goetze, revealed in another video what it is.<\/p>\n

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Piece of glass to fight smartphone addiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

The clear device is merely a slab of acrylic in the shape of a phone, she says in the video, and is out of stock. Why are people buying this piece of rectangular slab? Apparently, it is being used to fight screen addiction.<\/p>\n

Goetze revealed that a friend gave the acrylic slab to her to see if holding it and using it like a phone could reduce her smartphone usage. “He told me what he wanted to test…could you potentially curb someone’s addiction by replacing the feeling of having a phone in your pocket with something that feels exactly the same?”<\/p>\n

It is being sold for $25 a pop on a website and is sold out. It is being called “methaphone”, named after a drug called methadone, which is used to treat chronic pain and opioid use. Similarly, this device is being used to treat phone addiction. People can add their name to a list of subscribers who will be notified when it is back in stock.<\/p>\n

The description of the device states, “For 50 years, heroin addicts have used methadone to help break their addiction.”<\/p>\n

“Now you can step down your dependency on your mobile device with this: methaphone. Leave your phone without the cravings or withdrawal.”<\/p>\n

However, not everyone is buying into the hype. People think it is a clever tactic to promote a piece of glass. Others say that no one is addicted to their phone, but to the apps. Goetze herself admitted that her phone use has not gone down at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A viral video showing a woman scrolling through a transparent device resembling a smartphone has left social media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[3082,1666,52092,3809,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-119287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-iphone","10":"tag-methaphone","11":"tag-smartphone","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114544831645124409","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}