Yondr

Yondr is an American company founded by Graham Dugoni in 2014.[3][4] It makes mobile phone pouches which close with a proprietary lock, similar to those of a security tag, and a magnetic device for unlocking them.[3][5][6]

Yondr
Founded2014
FoundersGraham Dugoni[1]
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
United States
ProductsYondr Pouch
ParentFocally, LLC[2]
Websitewww.overyondr.com

The Yondr products allows those hosting events in private venues to prevent attendees people from using their mobile phone or similar device while inside.[7][8][9][10] People intending to enter such a space are first required to lock their device inside a Yondr pouch, taking the pouch with their device in with them. They cannot use their device until they leave, at least for example into a lobby or a dedicated area, where they tap the pouch against a Yondr unlocking point. This is intended to deter a variety of potential activities such as unofficial or unlicensed audio and video recording, photography, or the distractions of using a mobile device. It has been used at events and venues such as music concerts,[4][11][12] courts,[13] schools[11][14] and nightclubs.[15]

Yondr leases its products,[7] such as to schools[16] on a per-student annual basis.[17][18]

In 2019, Yondr hosted a phone-free music and camping festival in New York.[19]

See also

References
  1. "Phone-crazed audiences and fed-up musicians? Yondr is on the case", CNET. Accessed 25 January 2018.
  2. "FOCALLY LLC", Bizapedia, 11 March 2017. Accessed 25 January 2018.
  3. "This Startup Wants to Neutralize Your Phone—and Un-change the World", Wired (magazine). Accessed 25 January 2018.
  4. Edgers, Geoff (16 June 2016). "Alicia Keys is done playing nice. Your phone is getting locked up at her shows now". The Washington Post. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  5. Megan Geuss, "I let Yondr lock my smartphone in a sock so I could “live in the moment”", Ars Technica, 12 October 2014. Accessed 25 January 2018.
  6. US patent 9819788, Graham Dugoni, "System and apparatus for selectively limiting user control of an electronic device", issued 2017-11-14
  7. Stav Ziv (23 December 2014). "Over Yondr, Where There Are No Phones". Newsweek. Accessed 25 January 2018.
  8. "Your Phone’s on Lockdown. Enjoy the Show.", The New York Times. Accessed 25 January 2018.
  9. Haynes, Gavin (22 June 2016). "The phone prison – how to stop people filming at gigs". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  10. Sax, David (17 July 2016). "At your next concert: stop filming, start listening". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  11. Solon, Olivia (20 June 2016). "Put it away! Alicia Keys and other artists try device that locks up fans' phones". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  12. Kaplan, Ilana (24 January 2018). "Jack White: Former White Stripes frontman bans mobile phones at gigs for '100% human experience'". The Independent. London. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  13. A. Slobodzian, Joseph (7 April 2017). "Some find ways to defeat Phila. court's new locking cellphone pouch". Philadelphia Media Network. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  14. Larry Greenemeier, "Smartphone Lock Pouch Leaves Students to Their Own (Unusable) Devices", Scientific American, 8 May 2015. Accessed 25 January 2018.
  15. "Yondr invites you to disconnect in "phone-free" zones". CBS News. 5 May 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  16. Mary-Ann Russon, "Dave Chappelle using smartphone-locking case to stop audiences leaking stand-up routines online", International Business Times. 4 December 2015. Accessed 25 January 2018.
  17. "Yondr Pouch by Yondr (Focally, LLC)", EdSurge. Accessed 25 January 2018.
  18. Tovia Smith, "A School's Way To Fight Phones In Class: Lock 'Em Up", NPR, 11 January 2018. Accessed 25 January 2018.
  19. "Over Yondr Festival".
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