Mine Kafon: the low-tech tumbleweed minesweeper

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An Afghan designer has come up with a novel tumbleweed-esque device to find and detonate mines, a device that has evolved from the wind-powered toys he made as a child. Massoud Hassani's Mine Kafon is made mainly from bamboo and biodegradable plastics, but the simple addition of a GPS chip means the wind-swept spheres can be monitored to reveal the location of mines... Continue Reading Mine Kafon: the low-tech tumbleweed minesweeper

Section: Military

Tags: Bamboo, GPS, Land Mines, Wind-powered

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