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Condoms will be able to change color depending on,
what kind of venereal infection are they in contact with
jeston, Geektimes based on BBC materials: Colour-changing condoms get picked up by contraceptive company
Three British schoolchildren received the award of the TeenTech young innovators competition for the idea of creating condoms that can change their color depending on which sexually transmitted infections they had to deal with. Two young people, Daanyaal Ali and Chirag Shah, have reached the age of 14, and their younger colleague in the competition, Muaz Nawaz, is a year younger. (They called their concept a pun/homophone S.T.EYE – VM.) A British company that produces contraceptives is already engaged in the idea.
Technically, the idea of schoolchildren is to cover condoms at the production stage with a special composition containing antibodies that can react to various bacteria that are present in a person with a sexually transmitted disease. Depending on which antibodies have reacted, the latex of the condom will be colored in one color or another. According to him, it will be possible to carry out an immediate "diagnosis" of the disease, which, unfortunately, I had to meet. The range of colors will be something like this: chlamydia will color latex green, the presence of the papilloma virus can be judged by the purple color, syphilis will color the condom blue and, finally, herpes – yellow.
Interestingly, the conceptual idea of a color-changing condom was inspired by a post on Reddit in the style of "20 things that should be invented", in which it was also about changing the colors of a condom, but only as a curious feature. The young people decided to add a little utility to the idea by discussing it with their school teacher, who fully approved of it. An additional factor was the fact that 450,000 sexually transmitted infections are diagnosed annually in the UK.
As a prize from the organizers of the Teentech contest, three friends received a cash prize of 1,000 pounds and an excursion to Buckingham Palace.
BBC journalists, who drew attention to the news, consulted a doctor who treats HIV at the Royal Liverpool Hospital. Dr. Mark Lawton admitted that the idea is feasible in principle, since there are already a number of medical tests in which the indicators change color – this is the basis for the method of home diagnosis of HIV. In this case, you just need to make sure that the chemicals on the color-changing condom will not cause harm.
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25.06.2015