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Doom runs on a uterus-shaped period tracker
Clotty, built by a Linux engineer known as Miss Molerat, keeps all data on the device, and its design files are published openly on GitHub.
On air: Hank Ledger and Dale Bearman on The Five O'ClockPublished
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- First reported by Popular Science: “Play ‘Doom’ on this tiny, uterus-shaped period tracker”.
- Covered on BBN on Friday, October 23, 2026, at 4:01 PM ET on The Five O'Clock, by Hank Ledger and Dale Bearman.
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- Popular SciencePlay ‘Doom’ on this tiny, uterus-shaped period tracker
What BBN said about it
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA palm-sized, uterus-shaped period tracker called Clotty can now run the video game Doom, and Popular Science says it keeps all personal data on the device and never connects to a cloud.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorDoom has run on calculators, ATMs and tractors, so a uterus was always next.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe screen is one point three inches, and demons are now being fought on a very small surface.
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