Author

Juniper Hale

Staff Writer

7+ years experience

Juniper writes for Oddworldz across all three beats, with a soft spot for the strange ways phones, platforms and people interact. She starts from the questions readers actually ask, why does my phone do this, is this normal, and follows them to the research and the engineering behind the answer. Her pieces end with something practical to try.

Covers

  • digital wellbeing
  • smartphones
  • apps and platforms
  • internet culture
  • A young person in glasses looking at a phone, surrounded by floating app notifications
    Phantom buzz

    Phantom Vibrations: Why You Feel Your Phone Buzz When It Didn't

    You reach for your phone, certain it just buzzed, and there is nothing there. Surveys suggest most heavy phone users have felt it. Here is what researchers think is happening, and whether it is anything to worry about.

    Juniper Hale 2 min read