Mobile phone rings for productive sex

by Actual News Geezer | October 31, 2006 at 07:01 am

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With a fertility rate of 1.25, Japan's women clearly need some help remembering to be fruitful and multiply (to simply maintain a sustainable population, that rate needs to move towards 2.0 - that is, each woman must bear two children during her reproductive years).

A new mobile phone available through Japan's NTT DoCoMo can ring to let would-be mothers know when they reach the most fertile part of their monthly reproductive cycles.

By tapping in data on menstruation dates, the user can program the phone to alert her three days before ovulation and again on the day. The company warns that the calculations are based on average cycles.

The new phone comes after 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.