If you’re studying this, you nearly actually have an advanced relationship with screens. Every yr that passes, they turn into bigger and more and more current in our lives. Meanwhile, we proceed to embrace the expertise all whereas complaining concerning the maintain it has on our lives.

Astrohaus’ merchandise have lengthy occupied the unusual nexus of applied sciences designed to wean us off different applied sciences. Here that largely pertains to the concept of “distraction-free” typing. Our computer systems have come a great distance for the reason that days of the single-function phrase processor, and what the {hardware} startup’s Freewhite merchandise presuppose is: what in the event that they didn’t?

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The new Freewrite Alpha continues the corporate’s push to strip the method of writing all the way down to its naked necessities. This outing, which means an nearly calculator-style monochrome display screen able to displaying two to 6 strains of textual content at a time, relying on how small you go together with the font.

“Traditional laptops serve as a playground for procrastination,” Head of Product Sean O’Rourke says in a launch. “The temptation of checking email and social media is persistent and does not allow your brain to stay in writing mode. Freewrite Alpha’s singular purpose and focused interface leads you to one thing – writing. The results are consistent, Freewrite devices bring a new ease to writing and increase productivity by as much as 3x.”

Certainly distraction is a really actual concern. I’m penning this on Monday morning, and I’ve already checked social media extra occasions than I care to say within the course of. Like different Freewrites earlier than it, the Alpha makes an attempt to reduce these intrusions, whereas saving the textual content for posterity by the use of on board Wi-Fi that syncs the textual content to cloud companies like Google Drive, Dropbox and Evernote.

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The product sports activities a mechanical keyboard and round 100 hours of battery on a cost, helped alongside by that tiny display screen. When you do lastly run out of juice, it’s rechargeable through the USB-C port on the again.

If all of that sounds good to you, Astrohaus is at present taking preorders via Indiegogo. Early adopters will get the Alpha for $249 — or $100 off retail. It’s anticipated to start out delivery subsequent July.