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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.'"
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you'll need an outlet store with a computerised fitting system by the sounds of it. here, poke your member in this hole while we 3d scan it. oh, and watch this porn.
I agree, this will be fantastic. I'm sick of wearing these bandages on my hands all the time.
Wishing there was a "Too Informative" right about now...
So close to the right joke.
Gates Foundation gives $100,000 to help invent micro, soft condoms.
There we go.
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...not many men are going to feel comfortable going to the convenience store and checking out with a box of "size smalls."
You're right! Small condoms should be labeled "Tall", with larger sizes labeled "Grande", "Venti", and "Trenta".
I bet they could charge a lot more for condoms if they did that.
You're right! Small condoms should be labeled "Tall", with larger sizes labeled "Grande", "Venti", and "Trenta".
I bet they could charge a lot more for condoms if they did that.
Over price condoms with pretentious names for the sizes...we can call them Starf*cks.
Some of what I say is fact, some is conjecture, the rest I'm just blowing out my ass...you guess.