Made from bamboo and biodegradable plastics. When it rolls over a land mine it destroys itself with the mine. It's also got a GPS chip to track movements.
@theheartdirector. Yes joking - partly. I was just imagining a field of bamboo toothpicks after that thing blows up. And the "Mame is Lame" is just a cute anti-mine slogan I came up with on the fly. Not making light of the sweeping of mines- or the need at all.
Cute looking, but you cannot rely on the wind to blow where mines are... And it can easily get stuck somewhere. So it is a nice looking, probably quite expensive, useless item...
Pointless, the whole idea is to methodically sweep an area so you can guarantee there aren't any mines there, the wind isn't going to do that! I know there's GPS on it but that doesn't stop the wind from sending over the same area 100s of times which Is pretty inefficient...
@woodc1000 i guess the whole thing is rather a poetic statement by an afghan designer than a scientifically effective way to get rid of the bloody mines. and, @Pbond, it seems afghanistan is a pretty windy place.
It's starting to turn into a "luxury rehab prescription" conversation. It's not meant to be a product, it's bringing light to a problem. Still, debate brings it to the fore.
Read about this at the London design museum. Current cost of removing one mine is ÂŁ800 per mine. With no accounting for risk. This wind powered removal costs the army around ÂŁ5.00 so for every mine it hits it save s ÂŁ795 they can then go and disarm the ones that are left.
Made from bamboo and biodegradable plastics. When it rolls over a land mine it destroys itself with the mine. It's also got a GPS chip to track movements.
Then they're going to need a bamboo skewer sweeper. Mame is lame.
Now, that's the cleverest fancy object I've seen over here...
@rzn8er you're kidding, aren't you?
@theheartdirector. Yes joking - partly. I was just imagining a field of bamboo toothpicks after that thing blows up. And the "Mame is Lame" is just a cute anti-mine slogan I came up with on the fly. Not making light of the sweeping of mines- or the need at all.
Anything that can potentially save lives is worth a "fancy".
Awww it's so cute looking!
Cute looking, but you cannot rely on the wind to blow where mines are... And it can easily get stuck somewhere. So it is a nice looking, probably quite expensive, useless item...
Pointless, the whole idea is to methodically sweep an area so you can guarantee there aren't any mines there, the wind isn't going to do that! I know there's GPS on it but that doesn't stop the wind from sending over the same area 100s of times which Is pretty inefficient...
@woodc1000 i guess the whole thing is rather a poetic statement by an afghan designer than a scientifically effective way to get rid of the bloody mines. and, @Pbond, it seems afghanistan is a pretty windy place.
@rzn8er well, they could sell the splinters as toothpicks to fund the minesweepers production then.
It's starting to turn into a "luxury rehab prescription" conversation. It's not meant to be a product, it's bringing light to a problem. Still, debate brings it to the fore.
@Thumsum yeah looks like my stuff tends to trigger this kind of arguments.
saw this at the dutch design week!
Read about this at the London design museum. Current cost of removing one mine is ÂŁ800 per mine. With no accounting for risk. This wind powered removal costs the army around ÂŁ5.00 so for every mine it hits it save s ÂŁ795 they can then go and disarm the ones that are left.
@samuelcrosland i guess this settles the matter once and for all. what's next?
@theheartdirector I dunno, let's look at some shoes...or a matt black Lamborghini
Or the combined brains of fancy,Could solve the problem, No? CHALLENGE