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umutisik01/21/20254 repliesview on HN

Tablets and phones could be calm tech too if they adjusted their brightness and white-point correctly based on ambient lighting.


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jazzyjackson01/21/2025

I thought an interesting move for the next Light Phone is to dedicate an entire knob to screen brightness [0], although they indicate it will be user programmable too.

https://www.thelightphone.com/blog/light-iii-design-manifest...

sdflhasjd01/21/2025

My previous phone had a scheduled "night time mood" which put the display into greyscale. Without this there's an intensity to the screen that reducing the brightness doesn't fix.

malfist01/21/2025

Calm tech isn't about nit levels. It's about how much the tech inserts itself into your attention.

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yapyap01/21/2025

I doubt those are the uncalming aspects of tablets and phones, sure they’re what keep you up at night on a physical level but not mentally.

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