Big Data, cloud, wearable computing and crowdsourcing boosters now have very, very tangible evidence of the technologies' power: 50,000 new humans. So claims an outfit called Ovuline, which offers an iOS and Android app dubbed Ovia Fertility that asks users to input details about their health and menstrual cycle, and can even …

COMMENTS

House rules Send corrections

This topic is closed for new posts.

Thursday 27th February 2014 02:56 GMT Gray Ham

Wham! Bam!

"They've done so, the company says, three times faster than those who use other methods"

IOW, it's taking only 1 minute, instead of 3?

4 0
Thursday 27th February 2014 10:33 GMT poohbear

Where's the control group study?

1 0
1. Thursday 27th February 2014 20:23 GMT Euripides Pants
  
  "Where's the control group study?"
  
  Sitting at home eating cookie dough ice cream and watching romcoms
  
  0 0
Thursday 27th February 2014 10:35 GMT Anonymous Coward

50,000 Ovia users have gotten pregnant!

http://blog.ovuline.com/post/77878454007/50-000-ovia-users-have-gotten-pregnant

Surprised they're not making more noise about 36% of persons shown in that piccie.

1 0
1. Thursday 27th February 2014 14:09 GMT John H Woods
  
  Re: 50,000 Ovia users have gotten pregnant!
  
  Surprised they're not making more noise about 36% of persons shown in that piccie.
  
  Ok, who's the 4th one?
  
  0 0
  1. Sunday 2nd March 2014 04:23 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Re: 50,000 Ovia users have gotten pregnant!
    
    "Ok, who's the 4th one?"
    
    .
    
    Back row Alex, Paris, & Rory.
    
    Front row, guess it'd be beardie, Sunny in the middle.
    
    .
    
    .
    
    .
    
    Guess you also missed the gorilla ? ;-)
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
    
    0 0
Thursday 27th February 2014 12:46 GMT Anonymous Coward

Solution in search of a problem

The missus and me just kept trying. Far more fun than playing with a damn computer. Seemed to work fine, and we have proof -- two of them, in fact.

1 0
Thursday 27th February 2014 14:39 GMT Anonymous Coward

More importantly...

Surely the most useful application of this technology would be for people who want to avoid unwanted pregnancy?

It could tell women when going out clubbing and getting wasted on a Friday night is going to be a reaaallly bad idea...

1 0
1. Friday 28th February 2014 00:18 GMT Col_Panek
  
  Re: More importantly...
  
  There are many of these calendar based apps, and sure enough, they can slightly increase your chances of getting pregnant. There are very few that can actually decrease your chances; info on one that's over 99% effective can be had at http://www.cclgb.org.uk/ or the app at
  
  http://www.ccli.org/productsservices/nfp-materials/cycleprogo-charting-software.php .
  
  0 0
Thursday 27th February 2014 22:29 GMT VeganVegan

That's a laugh,

at the time I submitted this, the world has had (http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/) >260,000 births today .

Devil's spawn indeed.

0 0
1. Friday 28th February 2014 00:19 GMT Col_Panek
  
  Re: That's a laugh,
  
  You won't laugh when the British are extinct, and they declare Sharia law in the UK.
  
  0 1
  1. Friday 28th February 2014 18:29 GMT Trevor_Pott
    
    Re: That's a laugh,
    
    "You won't laugh when the British are extinct, and they declare Sharia law in the UK."
    
    Why do "the British" need to survive? What about their genetics is (more) worth of propagation than that of another group?
    
    As for culture, no empire lasts forever. Even were the whole world to be united under Sharia law some day, eventually that too would pass and humanity would evolve, adapt and move on. Your xenophobia is so small, so petty...it's nonsensical when viewed from a time horizon of centuries, let alone millenia.
    
    0 0