By Condoms That Change Color In Contact with STD.
The old adage goes that teenagers think about sex constantly, but there are at least a few out there who have expressed a very keen interest in the particulars of safe sex.
Three British students recently won the TeenTech awards for proposing a new condom that can detect STDs it comes in contact with. The teenagers—two 14-year-olds and one 13-year-old—said that the condoms can be designed to turn into different colours when they come in contact with different STDs.
Daanyal Ali, Muaz Nawaz, and Chirag Shah call their invention “S.T. Eye” and said they want to help make sex safer.
Condoms That Change Color In Contact with STD.
“There would be antibodies on the condom that would interact with the antigens of STDs, causing the condom to change colors depending on the disease… For instance, if the condom were exposed to chlamydia, it might glow green—or yellow for herpes, purple for human papilloma virus and blue for syphilis”, said Time magazine.
However, there is still ambiguity on how these condoms will work, particularly if the condom will detect STDs that the wearer also has, if the condom will be able to detect more than one STD at a time, and how colourblind people will be able to use the condom.
Regardless, condom brands have become intrigued by the idea and approached the students to develop their concept further because it is an achievable.
Sexual healthcare consultant Mark Lawton said, “The technology for colour change in the presence of an antigen is certainly something that does happen. It normally requires some additional chemicals in that process…”
Lawton added that the chemicals added would have to be non-toxic and safe for human skin.
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