KERN

KERN is a light that pays attention to the present. When it senses you have slipped into your phone, caught in the loop you knew you wanted to avoid, it starts to breathe, a slow rise and fall at the edge of your vision. The only way to stop it is to reach up and touch the top of the light. That small friction is the whole idea. It does not lecture you and it does not scold. It just reminds you, quietly, that there is something else in the room. KERN treats a bad habit as something you can interrupt rather than something to feel guilty about, a nudge back to what you meant to be doing. It was developed as a BA dissertation project.