Using Nanotechnology To Build Thinner, Stronger Condoms

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Discovery Magazine reports that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has granted $100,000 to Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) to develop a nanoparticle coating for condoms that will make them more comfortable and stronger while simultaneously keeping them thin to preserve – and increase – sensation in order to make them more appealing to use. According to the Gates Foundation, in the time that condoms have been in use, not much has changed: '[Condoms] have undergone very little technological improvement in the past 50 years. The primary improvement has been the use of latex as the primary material and quality-control measures, which allow for quality testing of each individual condom. Material science and our understanding of neurobiology has undergone revolutionary transformation in the last decade, yet that knowledge has not been applied to improve the product attributes of one of the most ubiquitous and potentially underutilized products on earth.' The nanotechnology that the Boston doctors intend to use for their improved condoms will be superhydrophillic nanoparticles that coat the condom and trap water to make them more resilient and easier to use. 'We believe that by altering the mechanical forces experienced by the condom, we may ultimately be able to make a thinner condom which reduces friction, thereby reducing discomfort associated with friction increases pleasure, thereby increasing condom use and decreases rates of unwanted pregnancy and infection transmission.'"

Comments

Want to preserve sensation ?

[dargaud]

Then how about you start by NOT sexually mutilating hundreds of millions of baby boys in plenty of countries and religions. Barbaric.

Re:Creating problems to sell solutions

[Stormwatch]

It wasn't mutilation when I got circumcised.

It was. You are a mutilated man, and so am I, only I am not in denial about it.

It was a standard medical procedure needed for medical reasons which has several hygiene benefits too.

Lobotomy used to be a standard medical procedure too. And insulin shock therapy. And trepanning. And radiated water. And mercury ingestion.

[Citation required].

Have some: about how circumcision reduces pleasure, and does not help prevent HIV at all.