Bit: an application that you remember to unplug

Ever is necessary to introduce the latest smartphone app. Well, more like the last app that you use for at least 25 hours.

Reboot
You call the Sabbath Manifesto app, and is intended to be a way to make a pledge to unplug from technology.

The result of a Jewish organization called the app to Reboot, Sabbath Manifesto encourages people (of all faiths or none) to participate in a movement of a day away from technology. This national day of unplugging is scheduled for March 4 or 5, as a way for people "to return the values inherent in a modern day of rest: reconnecting with family, friends and the world around them," according to reboot.

The application is available for Android and BlackBerry phones. An iPhone version is pending approval by Apple, but for now there is a Web-based equivalent to iPhone. Texting "restarting" for 738674 will generate a link to the version appropriate for a particular phone. Once downloaded, the app allows you to send an automated message via Twitter or Facebook telling people you are temporarily extracted and to sign up for text messages to remind you before the disconnect for a technology sabbath day. Could be the motto of the application: Join virtually live interpersonal.

This is the second annual day organised by the group by disconnecting. Last year, the group claimed that it inspired Digital downtime between millions of people of different faiths. Who knows? It is difficult to measure downtime as you measure site traffic.

It is also a bit difficult to get your head around the idea that, this year, the Group wants people to declare their devotion to downtime using an app.

"Believe me, we are fully get the irony of using an app high tech to announce a day low-tech. But really, what better way to tell your followers that you won't be tweeting on weekends, "wrote a spokesperson for reboot, Tanya Schevitz, of course, an email. He added that, while the Group has anti-technology, hopefully people will consider disconnecting more often: "a break from technology after one year is not enough."