smartphone ubiquity

The phenomenon where smartphone is the integral part of the daily lives of young people aged 10~24 years even though they're not necessarily fully educated on using smartphone responsibly, hence making them especially prone to the negative effects of excessive screen time on smartphones

With smartphone ubiquity among teens, it’s wild to see kids glued to their screens all day, even if they don’t really know how to use them wisely.

by Emotional Cruiser September 22, 2025

smartphone addict

People who do no longer have any hobby other than picking up smartphone for doomscrolling, hence they tie their self-worth to the maximum amount of screen time they can get from their parents

Ever since he got his new phone, Jake has turned into a total smartphone addict—he spends all his free time doomscrolling and has completely abandoned his hobbies, all while bragging about how much screen time he racks up!

by Emotional Cruiser September 26, 2025

first smartphone generation

This slang term refers to the first generation of children to grow up with smartphones, who are commonly born between 2000 and 2040. Hence, this behavioral requirement to get more screen time from parents, is the strictest during this time span*.

*compared to any era prior of after

Being part of the first smartphone generation means I basically learned to walk with a tablet in one hand and a phone in the other—my parents were super strict about screen time, but it didn't stop me from gaming and scrolling all day!

by Emotional Cruiser December 4, 2025

Relativistic Smartphones

A theoretical (and wildly impractical) communication device that must account for or exploit relativistic effects. For an astronaut traveling at near-light speed, a normal smartphone would be useless—its internal clock, network pings, and data streams would be hopelessly desynchronized with everyone back home. A true relativistic smartphone would have to continuously calculate its own time dilation and adjust signal processing, or use FTL comms to bypass the issue entirely. Its main feature would be preserving your place in the social media timeline despite skipping years ahead.

Example: "Got the new iPhone with the relativistic chipset. It automatically applies time-dilation corrections to my messages. I can text someone from a fast ship, and it holds the message in a buffer, releasing it to the network at the exact nanosecond so it appears I replied instantly, even if I experienced a month-long journey." Relativistic Smartphones

by Dumuabzu January 29, 2026

Quantum Smartphones

The mobile device that makes your current phone look like a brick with buttons. It doesn't just have a faster processor; it has a quantum co-processor—a small, cryogenically-cooled chip that offloads specific, universe-bending calculations. This enables real-time, perfect language translation by modeling all possible syntax permutations at once, unbreakable encryption via quantum key distribution, and sensors that use quantum entanglement to detect everything from underground water to your true emotional state. The camera doesn't just take pictures; it can perform quantum state tomography, seeing the polarization of individual photons. The downside? It might render certain answers from a state of probability, meaning your weather app sometimes shows you both sunny and rainy until you actually look outside, collapsing the forecast into reality.

Example: "I asked my quantum smartphone to find the most statistically perfect coffee shop. It put five locations in superposition on my map until I started walking, then collapsed the wave function to reveal the one with the shortest line and the best pastries. It also notified me that the barista's quantum emotional state was 'fluctuating towards grumpy,' so I tipped in advance." Quantum Smartphones

by Dumuabzu January 29, 2026