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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 Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 25 2018, @02:01AM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 25 2018, @02:01AM (#671464) Journal

    Well, I'll point out that there are many different kinds of "rape".

    To gain support, empathy, or sympathy, women really ought to come up with some new words to describe those various levels of unwanted attention from the other gender.

    If Daddy's Little Girl goes to the bar, and gets thoroughly intoxicated, hoping to attract a sex partner, then wakes in the morning to find the *wrong* sex partner sleeping beside her, I really don't see "rape".

    On the other hand, if DLG has been drinking soda, coffee, or water all night long, and someone slips that date rape drug into her drink - I see a big problem.

    Ehhh - people love their drama, don't they? And, how do you become a shitlord for having pointed out an obvious truth? Oh. I think I get it. People are pretty shitty, so you become a shitlord for having pointed that out. Got it.

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  • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday April 25 2018, @02:09AM

    by JNCF (4317) on Wednesday April 25 2018, @02:09AM (#671466) Journal

    On the other hand, if DLG has been drinking soda, coffee, or water all night long, and someone slips that date rape drug into her drink - I see a big problem.

    Yeah, that's a fair addendum. If the sober self was forced into a state of non-sobriety, rather than consenting to it, decisions made in that state don't necessarily have the consent of the sober self. You can't just slip somebody LSD and then convince them to give away all their worldly possessions... well, you can, but it's a dick move.