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A medical firm’s plan to revolutionise contraception by heating up men’s testicles has flopped after backers worth GBP 1 million pulled out.
Inventors Niklas Grohs and Rolf Tobisch say their ‘Cocoon’ device heats up men’s testes to 41.4 degrees Celsius before sex, paralysing their sperm.
The pair launched their bizarre device on Germany’s version of TV’s ‘Dragons’ Den’ (‘Die Hoehle der Loewen’; ‘The Lions’ Den’ in English) to the baffled reactions of potential investors.
Images of the prototype make it look like some sort of eye-watering torture device.
Two egg-shaped clamps held together with nuts and bolts appear to contain heating elements like an electric sandwich toaster.
When they’re fixed around the wearer’s testes and plugged into the mains, a current heats them up apparently immobilising the man’s sperm for several weeks.
The inventors billed it as “a worldwide sensation for the contraceptive market” and say human trials on four subjects have had a 100 per cent success rate.
They told the show, they needed EUR 1.2 million to see them through medical trials and development that could take nearly three years before it reaches the shops.
But all four Dragons turned down the chance to secure a 25 per cent stake in the business.
Grohs said after the show: “I found the feedback so authentic, I didn’t expect that.
“For us, that doesn’t mean that we stop now. On the contrary, it rather encourages me!”
(Michael Leidig / newsX)
