Want to curb the time you spend scrolling through your Facebook News Feed? Two MIT PhD students have developed a radical solution: by creating a device that delivers small shocks to your hand when you linger too long on the social media site.
When Robert R. Morris and Dan McDuff realised that they were logging in more than 50 hours a week on Facebook — precious time that could be devoted to say, penning their dissertations — they decided to take action in the form of aversion therapy.
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