Kite Patch makes you invisble to Mosquitos - Video

[saeenji]

[h=4]Kite patch - How to get rid of Mosquito[/h][TUNEDOTPK]231821[/TUNEDOTPK]

 

[NasNY]

[h=1]Anti-mosquito patch attracts $164,000 in crowd-sourced funding[/h]

By David Silverberg Jul 24, 2013 - yesterday in Technology





The Kite Mosquito Patch is billed as a safe way to keep away mosquitoes for 48 hours, and its inventors recently achieved their Indiegogo fundraising goal of $75,000 by receiving more than $164,000.
Within four days, the Kite founders won over the public by reaching their $75,000 goal. Now with a huge bounty of cash, they hope to start production of Kite within weeks and begin testing the product in Africa. How does it work? Kite blocks the insect's ability to detect CO2 (which is how mosquitoes find and bite humans), using combinations of flavors and fragrances approved by the FDA for human consumption. The small colorful patch is applied to clothing (not skin) and provides protection against mosquitoes for up to 48 hours, its website claims. The site goes on to say Kite "is being designed to replace products using ineffective or toxic chemicals, and also to provide protection for individuals throughout an individual’s normal daily activities." Most importantly, the Kite team wants to bring their technology to African nations suffering from mosquito-born malaria. They intend to conduct large-scale testing in Uganda, their IndieGogo page writes. They hope to "send approximately 20,000 Kite patches to Pilgrim Africa in Uganda for the field test." ieCrowd, the company behind Kite, worked on its mosquito-blocking technology via UC Riverside, where it had received support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the NIH. As this report explains, ieCrowd built a new company and an 11,000 square foot mosquito behavior research lab the company calls "a torture chamber for mosquitoes." "We're the first company of our kind," said Grey Frandsen, CEO of ieCrowd. "We are laser-focused on bridging the gap that currently exists between America's incredible innovation stock -- the great stuff our innovators are producing on campuses and in labs -- and actually transforming those innovations into companies capable of solving global challenges." Around 660,000 people died of malaria in 2010, mostly in Africa, according to the World Health Organization. A child dies of the disease every minute of every day, as CNET writes.

 

[miafridi]

If true it will be good.

 

[saeenji]

If true it will be good.

what you mean by if true?

 

[BrotherKantu]

I wonder if Bill Gates support has brought their project to this level, why they need to collect 75,000 from people?
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[miafridi]

what you mean by if true?

Every scientist or artist think that his creation is revolutionary. But the fact only comes forward when that thing is actually implemented. There has been in the past many medicines which had been regarded as an utmost treatment for a certain disease but later on many of them proved to be doing more damage than good. So things like that should always be implemented in experimental basis to see if it is effective or creating some other problem.

 

[saeenji]

First thing is that the experimentation has been carried out and also "Anti-mosquito patch attracts $164,000 in crowd-sourced funding"

http://www.geek.com/science/the-kite-patch-offers-an-invisibility-cloak-against-mosquitoes-1563410/

read carefully, you will get what I was trying to say.....

Every scientist or artist think that his creation is revolutionary. But the fact only comes forward when that thing is actually implemented. There has been in the past many medicines which had been regarded as an utmost treatment for a certain disease but later on many of them proved to be doing more damage than good. So things like that should always be implemented in experimental basis to see if it is effective or creating some other problem.

 

[miafridi]

First thing is that the experimentation has been carried out and also "Anti-mosquito patch attracts $164,000 in crowd-sourced funding"

http://www.geek.com/science/the-kite-patch-offers-an-invisibility-cloak-against-mosquitoes-1563410/

read carefully, you will get what I was trying to say.....

I didn't oppose it. I appreciated it and regarded it as revolutionary. By the "if true" part i meant that hopefully it won't carry more side affects than the current mosquito repelling medicines. Like i said many medicine in the past who tend to be a cure for illness, were in long term found a source of creating cancer or other diseases more dangerous than the original disease itself.
The "if true" word wasn't meant to demoralize the technology but was just a wish that i wish it is true and doesn't carry any side effects. Hope you get it.

 

[saeenji]

thanks for clearing up "if true", it would have been best if you would have explained the same thing in one sentence in your earlier post. Hope you get my point.

I didn't oppose it. I appreciated it and regarded it as revolutionary. The by the "if true" part i meant that hopefully it won't carry more side affects than the current mosquito repelling medicines. Like i said many medicine in the pat who tend to be a cure for illness were in long term found a source of creating cancer or other diseases more dangerous than the original disease itself.
The "if true" word wasn't mean to demoralize the technology but was just a wish that i wish it is true and doesn't carry any side effects. Hope you get it.

 

[Bani Adam]