Bar launches that’s encased entirely in copper to stop punters from looking at their phones on nights out
Patrons who visit The Gin Tub, in Hove, Sussex will have to spend their Saturday night talking to the people around them, rather than focusing on Facebook
A POPULAR bar has come up with an ingenious way of stopping punters spending all of their time on their mobile phones.
Patrons who visit The Gin Tub, in Hove, Sussex will have to spend their Saturday night talking to the people around them, rather than focusing on Facebook, thanks to one of the bar’s special features.
The bar has filled the insides of walls with silver foil and its ceiling in copper wire to create a Faraday cage - which blocks all mobile signals.
But the establishment hasn’t stopped there.
Each table is also fitted with a faux rotary dial phone which customers use to order from the bar, but also call strangers on other tables.
Talk about a novelty.
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However, visitors shouldn’t worry too much about being cut-off from the outside world; a real landline is available, too, just in case of an emergency.
Steve Taylor, who owns the bar, told BBC News that he hopes to encourage customers to “socialise with the people they are with, rather than the people they are not with”.
The smart-thinking bar may be on to something if a recent Ofcom survey is anything to go by.
A recent poll of 2,025 adults and 500 teenagers, revealed that 59 per cent of people believe they are hooked when it comes to their mobile devices, while four in 10 adults feel they are regularly ignored by a friend or relative who was using a smartphone or tablet.