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A $9 NFC key that physically gates your distracting apps
TechCrunch covers a $9 NFC tag that forces a physical scan before unlocking apps you've marked as distracting, adding real-world friction where software blockers rely on willpower and an easily-dismissed dialog. It's a hardware answer to attention capture rather than an AI story, but it belongs to the same emerging category as OpenAI's $230 Micro keypad — physical objects reasserting control over software surfaces that have gotten too frictionless. Low importance, single-source, and included mainly as a datapoint on that pattern.
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