Samsung
New phones to help you pratice safe sex
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By Mingolo | Published Oct 2007
Believe it or not, we’ve seen something
like this before — out of Japan, naturally — so we’re a bit surprised
to see a patent app roll in from Samsung for a phone capable of
tracking a woman’s fertile periods. The idea is to keep the user
updated on her “baby” and “no baby” times of the month when she
places a call by measuring distance to the eardrum (using either
ultrasonic or laser sensors) combined with infrared to get a temperature
reading. This corresponds to a woman’s basal body temperature cycle,
which in turn maps to her menstrual cycle. In Japan, the concept
was intended to boost birth rates by keeping couples in the know
on exactly when they might have success -- but elsewhere we imagine
the intent might be just the opposite. We’ll leave it to our readers’
active imaginations to decide just when and how the user should
be kept abreast of said information.
Here’s the medical trivia from the
patent application:
when the woman’s menstruation period
is set between 28 to 30 days, the days may be divided into a low
temperature period and a high temperature period, based on the ovulation
day. In this instance, the low temperature day indicates around
about 14 days from a fi rst day of menstruation to the ovulation
day. During the low temperature period, the woman’s temperature
falls and the endometrium gets thicker due to acts of ovarian follicle
hormones to be ready to receive a fertilized egg. A body temperature
may signifi cantly fall for a certain period before changing from
the low temperature period to the high temperature period. The woman
ovulates at any time between the certain period and two or three
days before the high temperature period. The ovarian follicle after
the ovulation becomes corpus luteum and LH is produced, which makes
the endometrium softer so that an egg may be easily implanted. During
this period, the body temperature rises… the fertile period may
correspond to 7 days before the ovulation day and 4 days after the
ovulation day.
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