Did you know that design is changing the world?

The Afghan designer Massoud Hassani shows that lives can be saved with the wind:

Hassani (1983) was born and raised in the Soviet Afghanistan. Accustomed to war and the horrors resulting in the civilian population, moved in 1998 to Eindhoven (Netherlands), where he studied design. In his draft final race he thought he could take a step forward and help his country to combat the scourge posed by landmines. That motivation was born Kafon Mine, mine detonator a peculiar
low-cost wind-driven. "In Qasaba we built our own toys and were serving us from the wind for them to run," he explains when asked about his inspiration.

The wars that have plagued Afghanistan in recent decades have flooded with dangerous sea mines. The Islamic republic has sadly become the epicenter of these explosive devices, leaving more than 23,500 dead along the way. It is estimated that there are up to 10 million landmines buried in the deserts and Afghan mountains. And those who pay are always civilians, victims of 80% of the explosions.

The big problem of landmines is their high cost to clear them. According to the UN, manufacture them and bury them can be a three-dollar expenditure while to annul the figure may rise to 300 to $ 1,000. "Since the 60's the same technology is used", says Hassani almost surprised. "We want to prevent human lives are played and can defuse mines in an economical way." Mine Kafon puts an end to this problem. The detonator devised by Hassani uses a mixture of recycled materials and ecological with more sophisticated elements. Thus, bamboo and biodegradable plastic is combined with a GPS system that produces a map of the tracked path.