This adorable phone is designed to get kids off screens and into the world

Sam Terris spent his childhood roaming the woods around Walden Pond. Growing up in Concord, Massachusetts, he and his friends would spend hours outdoors, away from their parents. “We were really bored kids, so we had to invent games and activities to keep ourselves stimulated,” he says. “I think that was a really important part of development in my generation.” Terris, a serial entrepreneur who cofounded the plant-based nugget brand Nuggs, recently had a baby. He’s spent much of the last few years trying to figure out how to give his son a similar childhood. It’s not that easy, given than kids now spend very little time on their own, while also having access to the open internet. A 2025 Harris Poll of 500 kids aged 8 to 12 found that 62% had never walked or biked anywhere without an adult. Meanwhile, kids are spending more time on screens than ever. This is all culminating in a moment where parents are becoming increasingly wary of the impact that technology has on their children. (Last month, Meta agreed to pay up to $17 billion to settle claims from 51 states that argued it deliberately made its apps addictive to kids.) [Photo: Freckle] Terris doesn’t think technology is inheren…