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I read an article earlier this week about a new idea - which will perhaps be on the market as early as next year - merging the use of modern technology with female monthlies. At least, I think I read it. If I dreamt it instead, then I dream quite odd things, but would be happy to go with the flow {pun intended} and claim the idea as mine. Somebody has designed a tampon that connects to an app on your smartphone so that it can tell you when it's time to go to the loo and change it for a fresh one. Okely-dokely. Now fellow ladies, I don't know about you but I have been dealing with periods for a very long time. I have an amazing ability, which must come from thousands and thousands of years of female instinct, to know when my female sanitary product needs changing. Actually, it probably doesn't come from thousands and thousands of years of female instinct; I think it simply boils down to experience and knowledge of my own body. I don't need an app on my phone to tell me my tampon is saturated and needs changing ... I'm usually quite aware of it, thankyouverymuch! I'm not sure this will be a product that catches on. Firstly, who wants a bit of technology up their vajoozle? Secondly it's a throwback to the Judy Blume era of connecting your sanitary product to your knickers by means other than adhesive. Then there's the problem of what will happen if I run out of battery on my phone ... Oh my, how will I know it needs changing?! There will be panic on the streets. One wonders how women have managed to survive this long without the need of technology to support them whilst having their monthlies. Periods have been around since women have been around. How have we coped?! It seems to me that we are gradually giving in to technology. We want to make things easier for ourselves, but we do so at the risk of losing our own common sense. What next? An app to inform us that we're hungry? I think my rumbling belly does a really good job of that, thanks.