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posted by janrinok on Tuesday April 24 2018, @06:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the safer-sipping dept.

The Sip Safe wristband lets you dab on a drop of your drink to test if it's been spiked.

You learn the rules early when you go to gigs, festivals and bars: Always keep an eye on your drink. Watch out for strangers. Be careful who you leave your glass with.

But now an Australian invention could change that (and put less onus on young people -- especially women -- to completely change the way they act when they're out).

The Sip Safe is a wristband designed for concerts and festivals that lets you test for drugs in your drink. Dab a drop of your drink onto the two spots on the band, wait two minutes till the liquid dries, and if the spots turn darker blue, that's a sign that your drink could have been spiked.

It's not the first invention designed to make drink safety easy -- we've seen drug-testing drinkware, sensors that look like swizzle sticks and even nail polish that tests for date-rape drugs. 


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  • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Tuesday April 24 2018, @09:16PM

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Tuesday April 24 2018, @09:16PM (#671338) Journal

    The Sip Safe is a wristband designed for concerts and festivals that lets you test for drugs in your drink.

    Test for drugs in your drink? I mean, I know they mean knockout/memory inhibitors, but... your drink is just that kind of drugs! Drugs that chew into your inhibitions and social reserve, drugs that eat at your ability to make sound decisions, drugs that damage your liver and your brain, drugs that can drive you right into a blackout... and then...

    wait two minutes till the liquid dries

    Yes, that sounds like the perfect set of instructions for someone under the influence of drugs that swing the users over into the "don't care" zone.

    For whatever good it does keeping people from being knocked out / deprived of memory (but again, alcohol can do that for you anyway), I'm sure this is a good thing; action without informed consent bad, m'kay... but I'm also sure it's a very poor answer to "I drink, get stupid, and "something" happened."

    Does not apply to minimal users of alcohol. Although... I suggest that be done at home, followed / accompanied by a lovely plate of pasta. :)

    gigs, festivals

    Here, if it can be managed without incurring the (inappropriate, liberty-toxic, depraved) wrath of the authorities, pot's the better choice. IMHO.

    Liberty to choose always comes first though. Followed immediately by liberty to endure consequences. So there's that.

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