a futuristic workaholic who decides to have a baby using a “pod,” an egg-shaped, electronic device in which a fetus develops outside the mother’s body. Running time: 101 minutes. Not yet rated.

Conveniently, the egg comes with a charger stand with a slot to plug in food pods for the embryo, and you can monitor it remotely with an app, which comes in handy when you aren’t allowed to ...

In a sci-fi future where everything is ruthlessly, comically optimized by advanced tech, the Womb Center offers digitally monitored, egg-shaped pods that will carry one’s baby to term.

Instead of living in the mother’s belly, the fetus comes to term in a pod that looks like a shiny white plastic egg about a foot-and-a-half tall. There’s a cap on top with small holes that ...