“Isn’t it about time we redefine what menstruation is all about?”
If you want to track and learn more about your monthly flow, you can pre-order a Bluetooth-connected menstrual cup that sends reports to your phone.
Now on Kickstarter, the Looncup is a smart menstruation cup that women can insert into their vaginas during their periods. The cup tracks details like fluid volume and color, and compares that data on a monthly basis.
Further, the cup connects via Bluetooth to an app on your iPhone, Android or Apple Watch, and can send push notifications indicating how full the cup is, and when you should change it.
I track my periods on my iPhone with one of those apps that are clearly meant for fertility purposes; even after I turned off all the notifications, I still received notifications letting me know when I was ovulating and what kind of healthy secretions I should be seeing to indicate prime baby-making dates. At the time, that felt like an episode of Black Mirror. The idea of a menstrual cup that doesn’t even need you to properly upload your menarche-related data is the storyline of a horror movie that hasn’t been written yet.