This makes you invisible to mosquitoes - Siste.no

[Lights] The Kite Patch, as product name, according to the creators could protect you from mosquitoes in that it blocks the mosquito’s ability to find yourself. Mosquitoes are able to orient themselves at an offering from distances up to several hundred meters, partly thanks to the capture traces of carbon dioxide from exhalation to humans. These tracks conductive mosquitoes near their victims before they use other aids to guide them until the sting site.

product is developed by three researchers from Olfactor Laboratories in the U.S., based on research done at the University of California, Riverside, writes the website io9.com.

The little sticker shall consist of non-toxic chemicals and must be attached to clothing and skin. It has already received support from the National Institute of Health in the United States as well as from Bill Gates’ own funds – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

confirmed by UiT professor

possibility that the product may work confirmed by the professor of entomology (study of insects) Arne C. Nilssen, University of Tromsø.

– Tracking of carbon dioxide is probably the most important tool mosquitoes and other blood sucking insects have to find their victims. This fact has been known for a long time. Mosquitoes use carbon dioxide to find victims from a distance. Do these scientists have now found a way to block mosquito effort to track this, it will certainly help to prevent mosquito bites, says Nilssen the Northern Lights.

professor stresses that mosquitoes also have other means to find their victims, but these help primarily at short distance. He also stated that the invention of scientists seems very interesting.

Shall be tested in Uganda

After completing highly successful tests in the laboratory, the product should now be tested in large format in Uganda – an area described as one of the toughest in the world when it comes to mosquito problems. But to get to the point where one can conduct extensive testing, the developers are depending more support.

They therefore asked for 75,000 dollars in support through micro-financing since indiegogo.com – a variant of the perhaps more familiar microfinancing site kickstarter.com. And the response has not been long in coming. The goal was reached in just four days and by 36 days left before the deadline runs out, you have already collected nearly three times that sum, in writing, at 216.200 dollars. Thus, it seems obvious that it will conduct testing to enlarge in Uganda.

To prevent malaria

If you want to contribute to product development, can contribute a sum of 10 dollars – for this the developers promise that you will receive five copies of The Kite Patch. It can also help with larger sums, which means that it will get more copies and other perks – including the opportunity to donate items to needy families in malaria-prone areas.

And according to the developers, it just means to malaria-prone areas as a driving force behind the development. Today door namely roughly one child every minute of malaria worldwide. The developers hope that their product will be able to help to ensure that you can prevent malaria deaths in the future.

But in Norway there are probably many who would like a product that keeps mosquitoes away – without having to make use of harmful chemicals. It’s probably just ask any person who has remained on the tundra in the summer during the worst mosquito periods.