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Bill Gates’ New Project Smells

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Billionaire Bill Gates is intentionally sniffing feces.

The Microsoft founder believes he can stop third-world people from defecating in public if he can make the private bathroom pits smell better.  In a blog post yesterday, Gates revealed he is working with a Swiss company to develop a scent that would cancel out the stench of raw human waste.

Firmenich is a 120-year-old fragrance company.  Researchers there recently shared with Gates a new idea.  Instead of masking the smell, they want to block it from getting to the brain.  They likin the idea to noise cancelling headphones, but for the nose.

According to the Gates Foundation, more than one billion people don’t have access to indoor toilets.  Human waste contaminating the water supply is blamed for more than 800,000 children’s deaths every year.  At a Gates Foundation summit two years ago, it was discovered that even with a new effort to create millions of pit toilets in developing countries, people aren’t using them.  The reason – the smell.

Firmenich is now working on a test program in India and Africa to determine if their new invention works and how best to distribute it.  Once their field studies are done, the Gates Foundation plans to roll out the high-tech poop spray around the world.

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13 Comments on Bill Gates’ New Project Smells

  1. It’s not just technology the third world needs it’s the knowledge and culture of sanitation that the first world has evolved and developed. Otherwise you get videos of refugees in Italy washing their ass at public fountains and using the same hand to drink water (hope they enjoy the runs later).

  2. I have been places that smelled pretty bad, some were considered blameless because of socioeconomic standards.
    The worst olfactory assault experienced in a modern civilized country was a crowded bus in France, on a Friday night.

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