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Do You Want to Get Pregnant?
Cambridge Temperature Concepts is calling for volunteers to test its new fertility monitor DuoFertility.

DuoFertility consists of a tiny sensor, the size of a £1 coin, embedded in a small stick-on patch that can be worn discreetly by a woman under the arm, night and day. It automatically collects temperature data every few seconds, and a compact digital hand-held reader shows the results whenever desired. CTC's Chief Executive Officer, Dr Shamus Husheer said, "DuoFertility continuously measures body temperature so you don't have to. The temperature data it produces has a precision greater than most laboratory research equipment, whilst being simple and convenient to use. The participants in the trial will benefit from having access to the latest technology in the comfort and privacy of their own homes."

June 3rd, 2008

 

OV-Watch
Celebrity endorsements
of the OV-Watch, from two TV personalities, who used it to help get pregnant.
January 30th, 2008

 

Mobile Phone with a Fertility Monitor
The Unwired View website reports that Samsung has filed a patent application for a mobile phone equipped with a fertility monitor.

The phone will have ultrasonic or laser based distance sensor and infrared ray temperature sensor installed around it’s speaker. Whenever you make a phone call, distance sensor measures the location of the phone relative to your eardrum and infrared sensor measures the temperature inside your eardrum.

The rest is up to the phone software, which processes the measurements, transforms them into BBT records, determines fertile and infertile periods of the menstruation cycle and provides you with recommendations.

August 18th, 2007

Help from Fertility Monitors

Do fertility monitors help increase a woman's likelihood of getting pregnant? asks the Boston Globe.

Yes, according to the
latest research.
June 20th, 2007
 

Conception - The Question of Timing
Newsday has followed up yesterday's Clearblue Easy Fertility Monitor press release (below) with its own interesting pregnancy monitor report, including an interview with an independent expert who seems to agree that the Clearblue really does provide an excellent means of determining the best time for conception:

"It is very interesting," said Dr. Nancy Jasper, an assistant clinical professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, who wasn't part of the study. "The latest ovulation monitor that measures a by-product of estrogen and leutinizing hormone opens the window for women to have more opportunities to get pregnant."

Most monitors just measure leutinizing hormone, or LH, which surges on the brink of ovulation and tells women ovulation will occur in the next 24 to 36 hours. The Clearblue Easy Fertility Monitor lets women know when they are a few days away from ovulating, based on their urine, so they have more time to try and conceive. Jasper said the egg is usually viable for 48 hours. Sperm is still active for three to five days.

..."Many women don't have a perfectly timed cycle," Jasper said. "And for many women, timing is an issue in trying to conceive. That is why this type of monitoring is ideal."

January 12th, 2007

 

Get Pregnant Quicker
A press release from Inverness Medical Innovations says new research "proves" that the company's Clearblue Easy Fertility Monitor "can significantly improve the odds of a quicker conception".

The results of this controlled study are being published in the February issue of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine's publication "Fertility & Sterility"....

Findings revealed that approximately 23% of women who took part in the research using the Monitor became pregnant during the first two cycles of use, compared with 14% of the women who were not using the Monitor. This indicates that over a third more women conceived using the Clearblue Easy Fertility Monitor. Additionally, product feedback was overwhelmingly positive with 90% of participants agreeing that the Fertility Monitor was easy to use.

January 11th, 2007

 

 

The Most Sophisticated Technology You Will Ever Pee On
Thank you to the AdRants blog for its alert on the new ad for the Clearblue Easy Fertility Monitor. You can view it here.

Here's what AdRants tells us:

Those crazy cats at Amalgamated, the very guys who brought us Ben & Jerry claymation, decide to stomp on the polite institution of blue bodily fluid for their client Clearblue Easy and its new digital pregnancy test.

We would have respected them for that. But they took things one step further and put the pregnancy test in space, a la Dark Star, and then let fall a stream of disembodied space piss! And then our brains exploded....Be careful. It's a little crazy.

December 20th, 2006

 

Watches That Just Tell the Time Are So Boring
Coolest-Gadgets.com reviews the OV-Watch Fertility Predictor:

Watches that just tell the time are so boring, so what extra functionality can you add to your wrist watch to make it that much more useful. You guessed it, a fertility meter.

...It looks like a digital wristwatch and it has a sensor that tracks the differences in salt levels to accurately predict when you should do “it”.

This fertility gadget could come in real handy for couples planning on trying for a baby (remember practice makes perfect), or for those who run a mile when babies are mentioned.

November 9th, 2006

 

A Watch That Says It's Time To Do It
The Los Angeles Daily News carries an amusing review of the OV-Watch Fertility Predictor:

"Honey, my watch says it's time to ... make a baby." You could be speaking — or hearing — those words, if only you had the OV-Watch fertility predictor, which looks like a normal runner's-type digital watch but instead tells women the six days per month during which they're primed for pregnancy.

Forget those nasty urine sticks — which, in case you didn't know, get covered with urine — or the ultra-traditional temperature-taking method. Those methods can miss the critical four-day period before ovulation, also known as prime time for making babies, according to device-maker HealthWatchSystems.

...The catch? It may look like a Timex, but the OV-Watch costs $189, which includes a three-month supply of ion sensors. But considering the price of fertility treatment at a doctor's office, that's small change. And you can be sure the guy in your life will be intrigued by a digital watch that says, "It's time to do it."

October 24th, 2006

 

 

 

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