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Bill Gates Offers $100K to Design a Better Condom
Newser ^ | 03/25/2013 | Kevin Spak

Posted on 03/25/2013 10:31:18 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

Bill Gates is on a mission to make safe sex better. Gates' foundation is offering a $100,000 reward to anyone who can come up with a plan for making a more pleasurable condom that more men will actually want to use, NBC News reports. Condoms are cheap and effective, the foundation said in a statement, but they also decrease pleasure for men. "Is it possible to develop a product without this stigma, or better, one that is felt to enhance pleasure?" it asks.

To snag the cash, applicants will have to come up with a proposal for a "Next Generation Condom," or technologies that might help in such a thing. From there, they'll have to show a clear testable hypothesis and data to move on to potential Phase II funding—which could net them as much as $1 million. The hope is that more widely used condoms could reduce the spread of AIDS in places like Africa; the new designs must be inexpensive enough to work in "a developing world setting."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: billgates; condom
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To: PapaBear3625
Q: Why is it that Africa is the only place on earth that AIDs is spread through heterosexual sex? Hint: Because it’s not spread through heterosexual sex!

I play racquetball with a urologist and I asked him this very question. He told me that it had more to do with circumcision. He said circumcision is like a vaccine against aids. He went to Africa and set up a circumcision clinic as part of his internship.

Just passing this along. I have no medical background, and I believe as you do – it does not seem to be a heterosexual issue.

21 posted on 03/25/2013 10:54:04 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: IYAS9YAS

-)


22 posted on 03/25/2013 10:56:32 AM PDT by ZULU (See: http://gatesofvienna.net/)
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To: Responsibility2nd

LOL!!!!

Have several great ideas, all of which will get me banned....

Still, no needle DK nerd needs to worry about sumpin he ain’t gonna much of..... Without paying for it...


23 posted on 03/25/2013 10:57:54 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: PapaBear3625

Some from doing unnatural things with monkeys.


24 posted on 03/25/2013 10:58:06 AM PDT by ZULU (See: http://gatesofvienna.net/)
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To: Truth2012

??? Do you know many billionaires personally?


25 posted on 03/25/2013 10:59:06 AM PDT by stuartcr ("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
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To: Responsibility2nd

I like the old punchline: “A fistful of rubber bands and a pencil.”


26 posted on 03/25/2013 11:09:07 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Geez


27 posted on 03/25/2013 11:37:02 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Must it need to work through a whole session without requiring a reboot?

If it fails does it need to turn blue?

How will new models need to be introduced?

Will 640 ml be large enough for anybody?


28 posted on 03/25/2013 11:40:04 AM PDT by posterchild (Remember that thou art dust and to dust thou shalt return.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Billions in research trying to design a condom to replicate a feeling that can be had by simply choosing your woman more wisely ... and then going without. Brilliant.

SnakeDoc


29 posted on 03/25/2013 11:44:51 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("I've shot people I like more for less." -- Raylan Givens)
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"Bill Gates Offers $100K to
Design a Better Condom"


(Hey Bill...did I win???)

30 posted on 03/25/2013 11:45:35 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Responsibility2nd

Good put one on your head two on your ears and a box in your mouth


31 posted on 03/25/2013 12:14:58 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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