Meet BLOCK, a modern day Faraday Cage. Put your smartphone in it, close the lid, and enjoy your dinner, meeting or movie night without the usual pings, push-messages, and email notifications.

BLOCK is a stylish, black aluminium Faraday cage. One which looks great on office desks, dinner tables,...

Meet BLOCK, a modern day Faraday Cage. Put your smartphone in it, close the lid, and enjoy your dinner, meeting or movie night without the usual pings, push-messages, and email notifications.

BLOCK is a stylish, black aluminium Faraday cage. One which looks great on office desks, dinner tables, yoga class floors and so on. It simply blocks Wi-Fi and all other telephone signals from your phone whenever you want it to. Putting your smartphone in BLOCK will also conserve battery life significantly, because your phone will stop searching for a signal once it fails to find one.

Why not just switch off your phone?
Our credo: out of sight, out of mind. Also consider this question: when’s the last time you switched off your phone?

Exactly. We need different solutions to imprint other behavior.

Details

Measures 17,8 x 8,9 cm
Holds 4-7 smartphones
Made from aluminium
Made in Amsterdam

BLOCK x Misc-store Amsterdam

Two-thirds of the world's population has a smartphone. And moments without rrrrrrrings, pings, pushes and likes are rare. Almost a luxury you could say.

BLOCK aims to help people find more balance between their analogue and digital lives by functioning as a break from the connected society. The BLOCK design-team, consisting of Ernst Koning & Fabian Sapthu, thinks this is part of the emerging disconnect-trend and strongly feel that disconnect will become the new luxury. And so do we.