The Social Fabric features a display of avatars on a mobile device's screen, representing individuals in a group of friends or acquaintances. The avatars use body language to show how recently you've contacted each person: Regularly contacted friends appear alert and look directly at you. Less frequent contacts might slouch and turn to the side, and infrequent contacts could have their backs turned.

"I wanted to capture the possible effect this would have and make us more aware of our actions and inactions in our social lives," said [creator So] Blyth. "Ideally, it (could) elevate our consciousness with regard to managing our social lives. It makes apparent, subtly, through the visualization, a negative trend or a positive trend. So we become more aware and see the repercussions of not nurturing our relationships."

"I hate lockdown. It's hideous," Stewart tells the August issue of the magazine, on newsstands July 12. Asked about the electronic monitoring device she must wear on her ankle - she has complained repeatedly that it irritates her skin - Stewart says she knows how to remove it.

"I watched them put it on. You can figure out how to get it off," she is quoted as saying. "It's on the Internet. I looked it up." Her publicist's eyes "widened with alarm" when Stewart made the remark. The article didn't say whether Stewart claimed ever to have taken off the device.