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New 'touch grass' app is a wild way to stop you and your friends from doomscrolling

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New 'touch grass' app is a wild way to stop you and your friends from doomscrolling.

Rhys Kentish , a senior software engineer at the London -based app design firm Brightec , has created an app that requires you to touch grass before you even think about wasting 45 minutes scrolling through TikTok or an hour on Instagram reels.

The app allows people to pause and connect with the real world before entering algorithmically altered reality.

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English

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32

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