Afghan designer Massoud Hassani has created a low cost solution for landmine clearance. His ‘Mine Kafon’ is a 175-pound wind-powered landmine clearer that looks like a giant tumbleweed. Built by hand from bamboo and biodegradable plastics, the creation blows across the ground and is destroyed if it rolls over an undetonated mine.

Mine Kafon also has a GPS chip embedded in it, which enables people to follow its movement on a website to see where it goes, where are the safest paths to walk on, and how many landmines have been destroyed in that area. According to Mashable it cost $50 to build, making it a safer and cheaper alternative to standard mine-clearing methods. Mine Kafon will appear at New York’s MoMA next year and will feature in an upcoming documentary.

This is reprinted from PSFK/Emma Hutchings