Los Angeles. Condom technology has taken a major leap forward with radical design concepts for the 21st century and the most significant structural changes since latex condoms were first introduced in 1920. Three patent-pending prototypes that begin US clinical research this summer could reshape the future landscape of the latex-dominated condom industry worldwide. According to Danny Resnic, the Los Angeles based inventor, “The new ORIGAMI Condoms™ could mark the end of an era for the old latex condom. The brand has re-invented condoms as we have known them. The prototypes are non-rolled, non-latex, non-allergenic, and they were independently tested by the leading microbiology lab.” The global condoms market is forecast to reach 27 billion units and US $6 billion annually by the year 2015. Capturing a 5% market share would exceed US $300 million in gross annual sales for Resnic’s company.

Resnic’s Los Angeles design firm, Strata Various Product Design, was fully funded with $2.2 million in SBIR awards from the National Institute of Allergies & Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), to research and develop its novel inventions, the first condom production made of biocompatible, non-allergenic silicone.

Three patent-pending condoms currently in US clinical trials may reshape the future of the latex-dominated condom industry worldwide. The new ORIGAMI Condoms™ could mark the end of an era for the old latex condom.

Resnic is the principal investigator for three Phase I Feasibility & Acceptability Studies designed as clinical research in the fields of HIV prevention and contraception. Resnic, who studied at the Art Center College of Design, developed the array of condoms designed to increase pleasure and to simultaneously improve safety. The adjective ‘sensational’ rarely appears in the same sentence with condoms, however, the brand’s technological innovations are intended to advance consumer acceptability by introducing condoms that actually feel sensational to use, potentially increasing condom use compliance on a global scale.

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