• Question: What do you want to invent in the future????????????

    Asked by marina25 to Ed, Hayley, Jason, Nathan, Sophie on 21 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Hayley Evers-King

      Hayley Evers-King answered on 21 Mar 2013:

      I’d like to invent some low cost technology that can monitor if water is safe to drink. Too many people in Africa get sick because the water they drink is not clean, but people can’t afford expensive labs to do the tests needed. So I’d like to develop some little instruments that could do this for people very cheaply, then they will know what water is safe to drink and what isn’t.

    • Photo: Sophie Holles

      Sophie Holles answered on 22 Mar 2013:

      I’d like to make more available a new type of contraception for men that is safe, cheap, lasts for ten years and could prevent the transmission of HIV and AIDS! Its a polymer that means sperm can come out but the sperm cells can’t work. The biggest problem that we’re facing today is that there are too many people on the planet and pretty soon there will be so many people we don’t have enough land to grow enough food to feed them! This has already been invented but funding for it was stopped, I think it would be one of the easiest ways to solve one of our biggest problems. http://www.polymersolutions.com/blog/polymers-as-a-male-contraceptive/

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