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This app limits your screen time by making you literally touch grass


If you've ever spent way too long scrolling through endless feeds about nothing, you may have been advised to touch grass. It's a tongue-in-cheek

Image Credits: touch grass (opens in a new window) “I struggled with my screen time and worked out that I’d spend seven years of my life looking down at my phone if I didn’t change something,” Kentish told TechCrunch. Don’t even try cheating; using a computer vision AI, the app can distinguish between house plants and actual outdoor grass. I had to cross the street to find a patch of grass in front of a neighbor’s house, and only then was I granted access to open TikTok on my phone.

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