“Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates promises to offer a $100,000 of initial funding, with up to $1 million of possible continued funding through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to anyone, from students and scientists to entrepreneurs, who can invent a next-generation condom,” Benita Matilda reports for Science World Report.
“Chris Wilson, Director of Global Health Discovery & Translational Science at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said in a press statement, ‘Inspiration can come from anywhere and we are hopeful that this new round of Grand Challenges Explorations will uncover innovative approaches to improve lives around the world,'” Matilda reports. 
“According to the Gates foundation, the proposals should have a testable hypothesis, a connected plan, and should be able to generate an explicit data plan in Phase I to be considered for Phase II.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Bill’s got expensive taste in Mackintoshes.
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MBWAH HA HA HA HA!!!
OH Yes, because Microsoft is SO GOOD at preventing Viruses and Infections…
MBWAH HA HA HA HA!!!!!
lol ol’ Bill gonna need a big one since he’s the biggest dick on this planet.
oops, second biggest…forgot about 3l3c7ro.
I second that emotion.
Too late Bill, you’ve already had kids.
Virus proof Trojan
First toilets, now condoms. He’s on a roll.
Need a time machine to go back and give one to Ballmer’s father.
“First toilets, now condoms. He’s on a roll.” Well his MS was a failure in the tablet market before Apple showed the way, so I guess he figures to create what the people want with their iPads… Gotta have something to do when doing that do-do or after whoopie!
He’s targeting people in areas where there is no plumbing to allow them to have sanitary toilets and safe drinking water, that’s a great idea.
Agree, and if condoms end up with less people to feed in poor, overpopulated areas, that’s also beneficial. IF they’ll use the condoms he creates. The people having the largest number of kids these days are all the ones that couldn’t even feed and clothe a single child, or even just support themselves. And that goes for this country as well as elsewhere.
ok, you 2-3 Gates of Hell condoners who think he’s a philanthropist, when he did not give till retirement as he had nothing better to do as he failed the world with not a single invention & nearly got into shoe ads…when he will profit from 15B units sales in condoms & his foundation is founded on bribes & $1B in fees/salaries of tax avoidance they blame Apple on etc.
anyway, did you guys/girls ever leave the usa? have you lived in africa? some u.s. social workers tried the condom thing there. they cut off the tips as their dicks didn’t fit! it’s not that they’re dumb, it’s just not part of their cultural understanding. westerners think we can solve everything with our arrogance.
the bigger question is: condoms have not really worked and are only used by 750M out of 6B+ people. they rips. they don’t feel natural. rolling wastes time when you’re in heat or kills the heat! it’s calculated sex – unspontaneous.
i have a simpler, cheaper solution that does not require god damn charity: at the last moment, take your dick out. if you wish to be responsible with sex, you can handle that, it’s just like condom prevention & feels natural.
the other question is: if Billy did high tech all his life & accomplished all you guys say, why not invent a non-prophylactic solution?! a higher tech solution?! who wants to dress up? solve it simpler, easier…
Oh, I agree a lot of it is guilt induced. No question there. But as I said, at least someone is benefiting from his guilt complex.
“i have a simpler, cheaper solution that does not require god damn charity: at the last moment, take your dick out. ”
(A) that doesn’t always work. Even if you get it out in time, you can still get pregnant.
(B) not much fun for the woman hoping, wondering, if you are going to manage that feat.
Imagine being so destitute the only pleasure in life you could attain was some intimate time with another poor destitute soul.
Perhaps we should work on the poverty itself, instead of population control measures that do not work.
Effects of Uneven Income Distribution
The widening gap in the distribution of income is a major cause of environmental decline. In 1960, the richest 20% of the world’s people absorbed 70% of global income; by 1989 their share had increased to 83%. Over the same period, the poorest 20% saw their share of global income decrease from 2.3% to 1.4%. The ratio of the richest fifth’s share to the poorest fifth’s share rose from 30 to 59 over this period. The rich really do get richer and the poor get poorer.
The inequality of income distribution is bad for the environment for two reasons: it encourages excess consumption, waste and pollution at the rich end of the spectrum and it perpetuates poverty at the poor end. Both categories of the population are more likely than those in the middle to do serious ecological damage – the rich because of their high consumption of energy, raw materials, and manufactured goods, and the poor because they are often forced to cut down forest, grow crops and graze cattle in order to subsist on the land.
A similar picture emerges at the national level. The rich countries have a large per capita impact on the environment because of their high rate of consumption and waste. The U.S., with only 4.7 percent of the world’s population, consumes 25 percent of the world’s resources and generates 25 to 30 percent of the world’s waste. Compared to an average citizen in India, a typical person in the U.S. uses:
50 times more steel
56 times more energy
170 times more synthetic rubber and newsprint
250 times more motor fuel
300 times more plastic
Each American consumes as much grain as five Kenyans, and as much energy as 35 Indians, 150 Bangladeshis (a whole village!) or 500 Ethiopians.
Paul Ehrlich has suggested that we should measure the environmental impact of populations not simply as a function of the number of people but by using the equation I (environmental impact) = P x A x T, where P is the size of the Population, A is Affluence (or consumption), and T is a measure of how environmentally malign are the Technologies and the economic, social, political and political arrangements involved in servicing the consumption. Mainly because of the high level of “T”, the population growth in the United States is more serious for the environment than anywhere else in the world.
http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/bio65/lec24/b65lec24.htm
Well then you multiply your destitution and poverty and add others into your misery, fueling the cycle. Illogical.
It is not about logic, thats my point.
Despite what the religious right would have you believe, sex is one of the purest, most natural of human desires. It also represents a temporary escape.
When you find yourself with nothing, no food, no water, no prospects, desperation, it is like a crushing burden every waking moment. You want so badly to escape it, getting lost for a time in the pleasures of the flesh provides that outlet, that brief escape.
That is my point. To stand on high and say “well your stupid boy, that don’t make no sense. you should be suffering 24 hours a day” isn’t very human, nor particularly realistic.
Condoms are not the answer to ending the poverty. They may assuage our guilt at letting others subsist and reduce the number suffering, they will not eliminate poverty, they will not improve the world.
A temporary escape for those engaging in it. No escape for the kids produced BY it. Selfish. Illogical.
Would “they” the target condom users, agree that it is beneficial or are we projecting our desires?
I maintain that Billy’s money would be better spent on water and agriculture programs. These are people and despite being born into the poorest possible conditions, they also have pride, and it has been proven that the programs that are most beneficial include the stakeholders and work toward improving the environmental factors which contribute to the poverty.
Somehow I do not see walking into a village, telling the men they have too many babies, and BTW use this uncomfortable object to destroy the one pleasure in life they have being an effective program.
Personally, I find the desire to force condoms on these people to be no better than the crazy fundies who want “abstinence only” education for american kids. Neither strikes me as being realistic, nor effective. Yet both come across as agenda driven, forced controls on the populace.
Oh boy, I can’t wait for the comments on THIS one!…
Too bad his parents didn’t use one.
It’s difficult to get one to fit on jackals.
Dick In A Box
Since the topic is clearly one related to privacy, I see Google taking up the challenge…
Bill had a spate of paternity suits lately?
“Bill’s got expensive taste in Mackintoshes.”
I get it, MDN: Because he’s a dick!
ROTFLMFAO! I love MacDailyNews.
FWIW, ‘Mackintosh’ is British slang for raincoat, and as such, a euphemism for rubber, aka condom. (I feel like Don Cheadle’s character in the Ocean’s 11, 12, 13 movies, explaining this.)
Will they have a Ballmer Special Edition? Kevlar version with extra double sized reservoir metal ribbed version? Oh reusable or washable?
Can someone with a Microsofty even use a condom?
I volunteer for beta test, as long as I’m supplied with female adaptor.
Isn’t any condom, by definition, for the next generation?
All the geeky nerdy Bill Gates fans, who never had a girlfriend, will come up with some crazy shit. Something with a display and batteries, attached to a blow up doll, probably.
I thought condoms helped prevent the next generation.
It’s a little late Bill, Balmer has already been born.
Microsoft makes it hard to use condoms, it has to be Macrohard.
….an EXPLICIT data plan in Phase I to be considered for Phase II.”
Nice choice of words there. Can just about imagine what sort of “data” that could bring in.
Don’t laugh too much. That is a great idea. Imagine if you invent it and get the million bucks. What a pick up line!
It’s only right, since he’s screwed so many customers …
He is trying to prevent the second coming of Steve Jobs, jobs was a Buhdist after all!
Ok ok. We’ve had our fun and then some, but giving credit where credit is due… Mr. Gates has been spectacularly generous with his wealth since stepping down from the day to day operations of Microsoft. He’s been particularly interested in Africa and problems there including diseases (malaria and AIDS) as well as poverty and population control.
He is also backing efforts to create new traveling wave types of nuclear rectors that consume the spent fuel of older style reactors. And he’s contributing heavily to education and other philanthropical pursuits here in America. Kinda makes up for Microsoft Bob imho.
I can’t for the life of me think of what a “next generation” condom would be, but all jokes aside, crowdsourcing it will be great fun. It will be fascinating to see the serious (and not so serious) ideas that come out of it.
Maybe a condom made of nanites that are heat and moisture activated that are programmed to pursue and kill evil spermatozoa!
Any volunteers here for the experimental phases?
I never knew that Mackintosh was slang for condom.
I hadn’t either, but my uncle used to call the raincoats, so must be Mackintosh is the British translation since that’s what they call their raincoats—if I’m remembering my Beatles lyrics to Penny Lane accrurately! (“and the banker never wears a Mac, in the pouring rain….very strange”)
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the rich man to enter into grace. Bill is only ensuring tax relief and trying to assuage guilt.
I’m afraid you reinforce the point made by Luke. Nice work.
No, not really. Luke thinks that Bill Gates is doing something laudable and should be above criticism for doing so. Hardly true, he’s not sacrificing any wealth that he’ll miss. He’s still stupid rich. He won’t go without a meal or wonder how he’s going to get the rent paid.
He did very scummy things to get that money and while he’s doing some nice things with it now, and good for him, he’s far from a saint.
Sorry don’t agree with you at all.
Sure, it’s your right to have your own opinion. Even if you are wrong.
No sir, they are right, it is you and Luke that are wrong.
Correction Luke, he is offering a MILLION dollars for a condom design, NOT BILLIONS.
Bill Gates is a eugenics believer. He has ill gotten wealth and his “charities” are meant to positively paint his legacy and provide tax avoidance. Don’t confuse calculation with caring.
“Everyone participating in this thread is fucked in the head.”
Ahh, maybe we need a new condom for that? To stop the bad thoughts about Bill getting in? Mind control condom!
“testable hypothesis”:
so you can f’ yr virtual or physical blow up doll or a which human guinea pig?!
hm, hm, his philanthropy might work if he convinces (f_cks) the Latino Pope (to convert 1.2B cathoholics)!
“easier condom application”
with video tape as proof?
too much dickly to watch!
to reduce world population is too late.
EU stopped repro years ago, have the oldest world pop, esp. in italy. china stopped before that.
the biggest pop culprits are the catholics who refuse condoms, so the pope gets more members.
Billy f’d up Microsoft so badly – since nothing panned out in last 13 years why would this succeed any better?
maybe Billy wishes to be the nerd version of Hugh Hefner or Donald Trumpet’s Miss U – yeah, surround himself with sexy condom wearers – except for the syntax error in his judgment: condoms go on dicks not vaginas u f’g moron – Hasta Vista! oops. politically incorrect. sorry. maybe it’s for his wife’s pleasures, since Billy’s dick needs Nerdagria..
not to mention what philanthropy?!
condom market = 15B units/yr ww w/ over 750M users – imagine the profits w/ better, easier condom!!
“condom market = 15B units/yr”
Ahh, so it’s a plan to screw everyone without a computer, the way he already screwed everyone with a computer.
right Chris ; )
at the dawn of computing, after 1984, they used to say “To err is human, but to really screw things up, you need a PC”
imagine if those PCs replicated error, what the Web Era PCs did exponentially.
and NOW, thanks to Billy the Gates of Hell (Pandora Box II) will open the floods for more erroneous human sexual behavior : )
who knows, maybe the best that can come of Billy’s new invention: a more Perverse world fucking through Perfect Condom! even the Pope will have to condone this condom as it’s made by godly perfection. imagine the Holy C™ C will not longer stand for unspeakable Cancer ; )
One Last Thing™ as iSteve used to say: mabye Billy’s going for Condoms as they require no Windows! no mechanics or moving parts – it’s as advanced as flash drives ; )
Will the NSA insist on a backdoor for this product, like they do for windows? Will it be tested for backdoor by security experts?
A new condom with builtin Google glass.
It’ll probably be a cheap subsidized condom, but so complicated to use that you need to sign up for a support contract. When you call for support, you’ll be put on hold for 2 hours, before being told they’ll get back to you within a week with further instructions. Meantime the instructions supplied are so complex, you need to sign up to a training course to be a MCSE (Microsoft certified sex engineer).
Good for Bill, I applaud him on this one.