http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679008/an-indian-inventor-disrupts-the-period-industry
QuoteWhen Arunachalam Muruganantham hit a wall in his research on creating a sanitary napkin for poor women, he decided to do what most men typically wouldn't dream of. He wore one himself--for a whole week. Fashioning his own menstruating uterus by filling a bladder with goat's blood, Muruganantham went about his life while wearing women's underwear, occasionally squeezing the contraption to test out his latest iteration. It resulted in endless derision and almost destroyed his family. But no one is laughing at him anymore, as the sanitary napkin-making machine he went on to create is transforming the lives of rural women across India.
That is so awesome. An inventor working to solve a problem he doesn't have for people who don't understand him and, in any case, are unable to spend a lot of money in his products.
Quote from: Lord Cataplanga on December 21, 2011, 12:55:51 AM
That is so awesome. An inventor working to solve a problem he doesn't have for people who don't understand him and, in any case, are unable to spend a lot of money in his products.
I know! Purely for the quest of inventing something that will improve people's lives.
Wow, this is really cool. I especially love how the research that people found disturbing was vindicated. He performed an experiment that bothered peoples' sense of decency, yet was not in any way uncivil or indecent, and persevered through the naysayers to produce a really neat innovation.
Quote from: 'Kai' ZLB, M.S. on December 21, 2011, 03:32:40 AM
Wow, this is really cool. I especially love how the research that people found disturbing was vindicated. He performed an experiment that bothered peoples' sense of decency, yet was not in any way uncivil or indecent, and persevered through the naysayers to produce a really neat innovation.
Yeah! not only neat, but socially beneficial in a huge way.
Very awesome, indeed.