Reboot, a Jewish organization, has created a new app for smartphones that allows you to "check out" for a while. With the new app, called Sabbath Manifesto, Reboot encourages a one-day break from technology to remember our values and our family and friends that are around us. They plan to have a "National Day of Unplugging" on March 4th, 2011. Currently, the app is available for Android and Blackberry phones, and Reboot is awaiting approval for iPhone. After you download Sabbath Manifesto, you can send out a text and message to your Facebook and Twitter, notifying others that you are temporarily unavailable. While the group realizes the irony of "unplugging" by using an app, but the ability to send out a message to all your followers that you will be unavailable may encourage the "unplugging" trend. The group hopes this second annual day off from technology will catch on. While the group is not against technology, but they believe a break is needed to focus on the environment around and real interaction with real people.
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