How to avoid being a smombie, with Navibration

Have you noticed?

They are everywhere!

On the metro. In the queue at the supermarket. On the treadmill at the gym.

Always in front of you. Head down. Eyes averted. Jittery fingers engaging with the world through the screen of their mobile.

They are smartphone zombies. Also known as smombies. And they are dangerous.

A danger to themselves and to everybody else. Worst of all, they are everywhere, and on the rise. In 2016, Swedish authorities revealed that 650 citizens had been so badly injured while walking and using their mobile phones that they had required emergency care. Philadelphia city fathers announced the creation of e-lanes for mobile users. It was an April Fool’s Day joke, but very soon it was a reality in cities like Antwerp, Amsterdam and Chongqing in China.

At Navibration, we love technology. We love innovation. We love progress.

But we want this particular phenomenon to stop.

We want people to engage with the world. We want you to look at your surroundings and delight in them as much as we do. The world is AMAZING. And you (and your phone) can be actively part of it.

Our navigation by vibration system allows you to do that. As you walk around a city, you don’t need to keep looking down at a map on your screen to know where you are. Navibration will guide your footsteps. As you reach each place of interest, our specially curated audio files will inform you about what you have in front of you, so you won’t need to read anything.

Yes! You need your mobile to navibrate, but you can do it with your head up. Looking straight ahead. The world is out there.

Be part of it. Feel your way.

And take us with you!