Anti-Doomscroll Tamagotchi Only Lives If You Do

A hobbyist project called Polymo pairs an ESP32-based virtual pet toy with phone usage tracking to combat doomscrolling: the pet's health degrades when you doomscroll, nudging you to put the phone down. It also runs a local LLM on the phone that reads notifications and screen time, with a Whisper model for voice input via a bluetooth microphone and a Piper model to give the pet a spoken voice. The creator, known as brenpoly, has open-sourced the project on GitHub for others to build their own.

Source: https://hackaday.com/2026/09/08/anti-doomscroll-tamagotchi-only-lives-if-you-do. 8 Sync News only summarizes and links out; content copyright belongs to the authors and original sources.