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The James Dyson Award is an international design award that celebrates, encourages and inspires the next generation of design engineers. It's open to design engineering students, and is run by the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson’s charitable trust, as part of its mission to get young people excited about design engineering.

Rebecca Weiss, an industrial design graduate from the University of Munich, Germany, took the top prize and was given the award for her problem-solving idea.

Weiss invented the COSO, a never-seen-before male birth control device called a "testicle bath." Weiss developed the idea for her master's thesis.

She hopes the award will help her obtain funding to put the COSO through clinical trials.

Why?

• Condoms and a vasectomy are currently the only two contraceptives for men, while there are 12 tailored to women
• Although there's ongoing research into a pill for men, there is not one available yet.
• An alternative to condoms, and no one likes using condoms. Plus, they slip and can break

How it Works

• The device works by men placing their testicles into a small bowl-like gadget, which is filled with water
• It emits ultrasound waves to temporarily limit sperm production and mobility for up to two months
• Weiss says COSO is painless and temporary

Ultrasound Technology

• Used to reduce pain and speed up healing for deep tissue injuries
• Was first proposed as a contraceptive in the 1970s, and is thought to work by generating a deep heat in testicular tissue. This alters sperm mobility, which prevents them from being able to fertilize a female egg, and temporarily suppresses the creation of new sperm

Comes in three sizes.

"I'll Buy One Today!"

Nope, not yet. It's not available for resale yet. It's still in the testing phase.

Would you go a GoFundMe to support this?

Why should an unborn baby has more rights than pregnant women since women dont have a right to use someone's organs against their will? If you are a pro life, would you be ok to have the same right as pregnant women? If not, why?
My opinion to the texas law:
It is impossible to notice that you are pregnant at the 6th week. You can get still pregnant although you use contraceptives. What about rape victims? Rape victims are already mentally unstable and you also want to force them to give birth?
The fetus is also dependent on your uterus to survive. If the fetus should have the same rights like everyone then we should have the right to abort 'cause i dont have a right to use someone's organs against their will to survive.
The mental health affects the unborn baby too. A woman who is forced to give birth will face mental issues and she would not really care about her health at this point which is bad for the unborn kid. A woman can even have misscarriage if she eats to much fastfood. I dont believe that that these women can give birth to healthy kids. Pregnant women with drug and alcohol addiction or women who smoke affect their unborn kid in a very bad way too.
It is important that the kids are healthy because statistically unhealthy kids, teenagers etc. dont get adopted. The adoption centers are already full and so where tf are the pro lifers? Go fucking adopt them, instead of making them have shit life without parents. Statistically kids who grow up without parents tend to be criminals and tend to be victims of sex traficking etc. Any pro lifer who dont adopt is sadistic/hypocritical since they dont give a fuck what happens to the kid after it is born and they just create a generation of criminals and broken kids. It is also ridiculous to punish women for abortion. The jails are already full. Rapists, pedophiles etc. are outside but you care about innocent women having abortion?
I am actually more sorry for the unwanted kids who will end up having a bad life

I mean long lasting methods such as IUD (Intra Uterine Dispositive) or dermal implants for women and RISUG for men (Reversible Inhibition of Sperm Under Guidance). The last one hasn't been approved yet but all three are reversible methods and they can last for up to 10 years.

Delaying parenthood is a good thing in my opinion. People who wait to have kids are better able to pursue higher education, become stable in a career, save money for a home and kids, and provide stability and consistency for their kids throughout their lifetime.

If implemented at 14/15 years old people would have the option to delay parenthood until after getting an education or reverse the procedure once they're old enough.

Would you support it if it was mandatory in your country for underage people?

If you don't approve, what do you think would be the negative consequences for preventing teen pregnancies?