Halo Stops Bedtime Scrolling so You Can Go the F to Sleep

I had every intention of reading when I got into bed, but my e-reader wouldn't power up. Instead, I launched Instagram because I'm Gen X and that's where we watch TikTok. After 20 minutes, I was nearly done, except the last video wasn't funny enough, so I needed one more.

By the time my gaze shifted two centimeters up to check the itty-bitty clock on my screen, a full 65 minutes had passed. Like everyone else on the planet, I was deeply disappointed in my lack of restraint against ye mighty smartphone and pledged to leave it in another room every night thereafter, which I did precisely zero times.

A few weeks later, a little white puck arrived in the mail. A representative from ScreenZen had sent me Halo, a $49 app-blocking device that creates a geofence (or "halo") around any space you choose. Halo is the device, and...

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