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Ship the silence. Return recharged.
A weekend Digital Detox Kit delivered to your door — a time-locked phone box, an analog film camera, and a guided journal. Ship the silence. Return recharged.
Four things ship in the box, and nothing else.
The lockbox only works if it is genuinely unreachable for the weekend, so we made it one piece, with no override code and no master key. The rest of the kit is staged so the two days have somewhere to go: a camera with a roll loaded, a journal that asks good questions, and stationery that's already addressed.
- A one-piece time-locked phone lockbox.No override code, no master key. The phone goes in Friday and is unreachable until Monday morning's pickup.
- An analog film camera with a roll loaded. Twenty-four frames, no preview screen, no retakes. A different kind of seeing.
- A guided journal. Short prompts, lots of empty space. A record of the weekend you actually had.
- Stationery. A pen, stamps, and a few postcards already addressed to people you meant to write back to.
Who the kit is for.
Phasedown began with a small observation: the weekend had stopped being quiet by default. Phones followed us into the kitchen, the car, the dinner, the bedroom, and the two days that were meant to refill the week were quietly being spent instead. The kit exists to give those two days back — to the people whose phone has drifted past tool and into leash, whose sleep has started to drift under the screen, and whose analog hobbies have not had a long enough stretch of quiet to ever get started.
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Background and origin story.
Phasedown began with a small observation: the weekend had stopped being quiet by default. Phones followed us into the kitchen, the car, the dinner, the bedroom, and the two days that were meant to refill the week were quietly being spent instead. The kit exists to give those two days back — a one-piece time-locked phone lockbox with no override code and no master key, an analog film camera with a roll loaded, a guided journal, and stationery that's already addressed.
For the founder origin story and the reasoning behind the kit, see /about for the founder story →. Press inquiries reach the founder directly through the form below.
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