Digital Wellness Startup Replaces Screen-Time Limits with Bucket of Oil

Digital wellness startup Pure Focus unveiled its newest hardware product Tuesday. Marketed simply as “The Bucket,” the device is a galvanized steel pail kept on your nightstand and filled with three gallons of odorless mineral oil.The protocol requires users to submerge both hands into the vat up to the wrists first thing every morning, creating a frictionless barrier that renders modern touchscreens entirely inoperable.“We tried app blockers, grayscale display modes, and lockboxes,” said company founder Dex Tarry. “None of those address the core issue, which is that human fingers can grip things. Once your hands are completely saturated in heavy-grade oil, picking up a glass rectangle is a mechanical impossibility. It just squirts right out of your palm like a wet watermelon seed.”Early adopters report immediate, dramatic reductions in daily screen time, alongside several collateral lifestyle adjustments.“My screen time went from seven hours a day to zero minutes,” said beta tester…