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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.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @09:21PM (2 children)
high dose of EtOH (Ethanol CH3CH2OH) is a real good promoter of anterograde amnesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia#Alcohol_intoxication [wikipedia.org]
And anterograde amnesia is the effect of the supposed rape drug GHB in high dose or in smaller dose combine with EtOh. GHB is kinda hard to get (you will have to trust a polydrugs user on that) and unless you have acces to high grade GBL it is hard to synth . I guess that if your okay with muder you could use fentanyl but I am not so sure that a quick comma is really what rapist want...
using something else than EtOH, is not only not cost effective, it is improbable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @09:25PM
by hard synth I meant not something I can do safely in my basement without getting on some watchlist
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @11:24PM
better than a period