Techno-Products: Goodbye Bites with the Sucking-Mosquito Machine
A French company has patented a machine that attracts female mosquitoes by simulating human presence and sucks them into a bag. What do you think about it?
Annoying mosquitoes! We try to fight them in every way, and yet they haunt us, not just in summer time but almost all year round now. And even if they are only a temporary threat to us, in many parts of the world they are really dangerous because they carry serious diseases such as malaria or dengue fever.
ATTRACTIVE SMELL - To get rid of the annoying insect from our homes, a French company has invented an innovative mosquito-sucking machine, called “Qista”, which attracts females and captures them inside. To do this, it simulates human presence by releasing recycled CO2 (normally expelled when we breathe) and a sweat smell similar to that emitted from the skin. Females of mosquitoes, attracted by these stimuli, approach the apparatus, which in a moment catches them by sucking them.
The device acts within a range of 60 metres and, according to the manufacturer’s…
