Advances in technology have given new hope to the seriously ill, the heartbroken, and now, the would-be mother. You may never look at your cellphone the same way again after reading what an ingenious Japanese tech-buff has created.
Japan’s NTT DoCoMo used one woman’s idea to invent a new mobile phone that issues specific rings to let would-be mothers know when they’ve reach the most fertile part of their monthly reproductive cycles. What do you think about that?
Here’s how it works. According the creators of the phone, all would-be mothers need to do is enter data on their menstruation dates. Then, they can program the phone to alert them three days before ovulation and again on the day. The company, however, warns that the calculations are based on average cycles.
The new phone is the brainchild a female Japanese designer who was inspired by an announcement that Japan’s fertility rate — the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime — fell to an all-time low of 1.25 in 2005, sparking worries about a shrinking population.
But, the fertility ring is not the only function designed to appeal to women. The new phone also offers a recipe database and a button on the side that sets off a “camouflage melody,” allowing the user to avoid unwanted attention by pretending to receive a call. Whoa! Wish I thought of that.
If that wasn’t wild enough, wait to you read what happened to some residents of a small southern Colorado town yesterday.
According to news reports, a mystery visitor who apparently had a lot of Halloween spirit, turned the town orange by decorating practically every square inch with thousands of pumpkins. Residents say there were pumpkins left on front porches and at front gates, on the front and back steps of a church and all along the boundary of the city park, even on the concrete parking stops in front of local stores.
So who could have dreamed up a Halloween prank of this magnitude? Residents say they have no clue who the mystery pumpkin decorator could be, but no one is complaining.