Yondr

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

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

Yondr products can be used at private events to lock up a mobile phone or similar device while inside.[7][8][9][10] People entering are required to lock their device inside a Yondr pouch, taking the pouch with them. This is intended to deter audio and video recording, photography, or the distractions of using a mobile device. It has been used at music concerts,[4][11][12] courts,[13] schools[11][14] and nightclubs.[15]

Yondr also leases its products to schools.[7][16][17][18]

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  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. ^ a b "This Startup Wants to Neutralize Your Phone—and Un-change the World", Wired (magazine). Accessed 25 January 2018.
  4. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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.

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