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 ...

Designer and entrepreneur Massoud Hassani hopes to rid the planet of its estimated 100 million buried land mines within 10 years. That's why several years ago, he developed the Mine Kafon – a device ...

Massoud Hassani has once again taken to Kickstarter to raise funds for his next-generation demining system which this time takes the form of the Kafon Drone. The new drone scans the ground for mines ...

Afghan designer Massoud Hassani grew up in a country with nearly 10 million land mines. And he realised that the standard way of clearing them hasn't changed for decades - walking through a mined area ...

There are an estimated 110 million land mines planted around the world, and about 20,000 people are killed or wounded by these hidden explosions each year. Now, a Dutch organization is working on a ...

Massoud Hassan, a former refugee, and Afghan designer have developed a wind-powered mine detonating device that detects land mine. Hassan built the low-cost equipment after being inspired by the toys ...

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[vimeo width=”537″ height=”400″]http://vimeo.com/51887079[/vimeo] The toys Massoud and his brother Mahmud built as children were created from a variety of ...

A small group of the Mine Kafon drones could clear a 60-square-mile area of mines in a year. A few years ago Massoud Hassani hit the design blogs with his tumbleweed mine detector, the Mine Kafon. A ...

The Afghan countryside is riddled with ten million landmines. Since their locations are unknown, there's no intelligent way to make the landscape safe. So the designer Massoud Hassani has invented a ...

Massoud Hassani is using new technologies to keep attention on ridding the world of landmines. The Future of Destroying Landmines Perhaps the most insidious danger from the millions of landmines ...

Growing up in Kabul, Afghanistan, Massoud Hassani created his own toys—lightweight rolling objects made from scraps of material he found around the neighborhood. A breeze would send them tumbling ...