Rome (Reuter) - An Italian physics student is ringing the changes with a condom that plays classical music if it splits during sex.
"When a condom breaks, you need to be warned urgently so that it can be changed in time. Mine will do it with a quick burst of Beethoven," amateur inventor Lino Missio, 26, said Friday. "I've got a prototype and it works just fine."
Missio, who studies in Genoa, said his musical condom, which he patented this week, was coated with a special compound whose ability to conduct electricity changed when the condom splits.
A minute, flexible microchip at the base of the condom measures any changes in the condom's electrical properties and sounds the alarm.
"It needn't just play music. You could get it to give you a verbal warning," Missio told Reuters. He said he was looking for a company to help him develop and market his invention.

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