Meet my bean, Mr. Bean, who has as much trouble focusing as me. I was recently asked to rank my smartphone addiction on a scale of 1 to 10 -- 1 meaning "It's not a problem" and 10 meaning "It's a big ...

YouTuber Hank Green launched "Focus Friend." The app quickly went No. 1 in the App Store.Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images; Focus Friend I needed to focus and write this article. Hank Green had just the ...

You must stay focused. You cannot open TikTok, or Instagram, or whatever little phone games you like to play. If you fail, you will make an anthropomorphic bean very sad, because its knitting project ...

Can a smiley cartoon bean help you stay focused? Hank Green, one of the earliest and most influential online creators, hopes so. Focus Friend allows users to set a timer to get a task done, similar to ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — No matter what we’re doing, it only takes a buzz or ringtone to break our concentration but this app does the opposite to help you. Focus Friend’s sole purpose is ...

I was recently asked to rank my smartphone addiction on a scale of 1 to 10 -- 1 meaning "It's not a problem" and 10 meaning "It's a big problem." After considering for a second, I said 8. Despite my ...