Archive for September, 2010

iPads, iPods, and iPeriods

Tracking your menstrual cycle? There’s an app for that. But beware the PMS alert.

When Steve Jobs introduced Apple’s new tablet computer earlier this year, there were plenty of snickers about the menstrual undertones of the name “iPad.” Our own Kate Dailey advised the blogosphere to grow up. Now it turns out that the device—and its mobile cousins—are actually useful for, uh, tracking periods.