Ah, but where's the fun in that? While I agree on not taking that infernal device to bed I wholly disagree on the 'saving time/money/effort' part. I see this a bit like the way I treated games on the early home computers (C-64 in my case) on which I spent many hours trying to take them apart so as to rig the deck in my favour. Once I got them to render myself invincible - endless lives, invulnerable, maximum strength, etc - I did not spend much time in playing them since that is not where I got my motivation. It was the journey which motivated me, not the destination. I've designed and built devices to help me perform tasks which I could have done in as much time as it took me to design and build the utensils but again, where's the fun in that?

Well, I guess those options are all for the 'lesser' designers out there (yes, I read the article, that states a solution in which the phone is held by something else then an arm).

The main problem I see with the approach of the designer in this case is that when the phone is held closer to the face (i.e. when one does not need reading glasses), the 'shield' needs to drop quicker, which gives me shivers. (Yes, association with a Guillotine)

Nodding off the use of smartphones in bed seems like co-dependency to me. We need more "this should not be okay" people here.