Bucking the trend of technology that allows people to tell everyone that they've checked into their local restaurant, café or bar, the creators of the National Day of Unplugging have developed a smartphone app that helps users "check out" of the internet altogether. The app ironically will use technology to...

Stephen Prothero, a professor of religion at Boston University, author of "God is Not One," and chief editorial consultant for the PBS "God in America" series, announced with seeming surprise, "I survived!" after taking the Sabbath Manifesto "Unplug Challenge."

But Prothero didn't just...

Frank Aldorf, executive creative director of the marketing and business consulting firm, Hubble Innovations, with offices in Los Angeles and Berlin, was the most recent person to take our Sabbath Manifesto "Unplug Challenge," shutting off his cell phone and computer for 24 hours last weekend....

Ben Greenman, an editor at The New Yorker and author of the new book What He's Poised to Do, was the most recent person to take our Sabbath Manifesto "Unplug Challenge," cutting off his cell phone and computer for 24 hours last weekend:

"I have...

Rachel Sklar, editor-at-large at Mediaite and the former founding media editor at the Huffington Post, was the most recent person to take our Sabbath Manifesto "Unplug Challenge," connecting to life without technology for 24 hours during a weekend in May.

In a pre-unplugging column on Mediaite, she said,...

Josh Radnor, star of the CBS series How I Met Your Mother and writer, director, and star of the Sundance Audience Award-winning movie happythankyoumoreplease (due out in theaters late summer) was the latest celebrity to take our Sabbath Manifesto "Unplug Challenge," connecting to life without technology for 24 hours last...

Time magazine columnist Joel Stein was the first person to take our Sabbath Manifesto "Unplug Challenge," going "off the grid" for 24 hours last weekend. He got lost on the way to a party because he had turned off his GPS; missed his friends because he had gotten lost and...

In the wake of the nation's first ever National Day of Unplugging, the non-profit group, Reboot, is launching the Sabbath Manifesto's "Unplug Challenge." Once a month, an "A-lister" will be asked to unplug from cell phones and PDAs, power down computers and tune in to the world. After...

If you walk around with ear-buds shielding you from the world; if you panic when you can't get reception on your iPhone; if you tweet or post status updates about what you are eating, you need to join the National Day of Unplugging.

The Jewish think-tank Reboot is encouraging young,...