See How a Cool New Sensor Can Detect Any Date Rape Drug in Your Drink
- Posted on August 12, 2011 at 1:47am by
Liz Klimas
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Stop. Stir before you sip. Two Israeli scientists have developed a date rape drug detector that works instantly and is 100 percent accurate.
Once manufactured for the public, a sensor would be dipped into a drink, and if spiked with a date rape drug like GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyric acid) and ketamine, it would let the user know in real time if their drink is safe. The developers have not decided how it will alert the drinker but it will be discrete: light up, spin or send a message to your cell phone. They are also working on making it sensitive to Rohypnol (roofies), another common date-rape drug.
Scientists have developed a sensor to detect date rape drugs. They are working to add Rohypnol (ruffiess) to the list of drugs it can detect. (mmonly used to sedate the victims of date rape. (Med India)
Professor Fernando Patolsky and Doctor Michael Ioffe of Tel Aviv University’s school of chemistry tested the sensor in a variety of drinks — cocktails and soft drinks — making sure the device would work every time no mater the mixer. It did.
AFP has more:
You just dip it into your drink, it might actually look like a stirrer in the final production, it’s tiny, very tiny,” Ioffe told AFP.
“And you don’t even have to hold it up to the light and the system will let you know whether there are drugs dissolved in your drink.”
See how it works in this Jerusalem Post video (chemical reaction happens about 1:05 into the video):
The scientists say the chemcial components of the sensor are nontoxic and affordable to produce.
[H/T PC World]
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Comments (42)
freedomisasfreedomdoes
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 7:18pmso great!
Report Post »turgon
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 6:11pmThis is a great idea and it’s going to make them millions and save a lot of people if it is available widespread. Enjoy Capitalism!
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 6:59pm.
Report Post »How about this concept?
Don’t go out with total strangers, and don’t go to meat markets.
Yeah, I’m old fashioned.
Chrono_Sleuth
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 9:47pmAye, and Secret Squirrel, it also happens in bars by bartenders setting up for one or another person who eventually just comes in to “rescue the girl” when she’s suddenly unable to walk straight.
There are also many many cases where close friends, and sometimes even relatives have used such drugs on their unsuspecting victims.
The reality is you just have to be careful, look for odd signs, vet people, but in the end, this is the best way to handle the problem outright, as it makes it easier to oust anyone in public.
People shouldn’t be cowed at home by fears. You need to go out and meet people or you won’t ever expand your friendships, or perhaps never meet that significant other in a random event. Happens all the time.
Report Post »Inbred Jed
Posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:15amNot to mention, many say that most rapes occur by someone the victim knows.
Report Post »cosmic dogma
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 6:01pmSuper idea. Should be sold in the vending machines in bar restrooms. Can we invest?
Report Post »Rob_M
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 1:03pmCourse when you’re drinking you might forget to do this, but it’s a step.
Report Post »Unstable Phenomenon
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 1:46pmBeing in law enforcement, i’m glad to see there is something out there to help prevent these kinds of things.
Report Post »LostAndLookingForTheTruth
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 11:26amSad…. What ever happen to personal responsibility? Raping a woman is wrong wrong wrong. Common sence will tell you that. On the other hand this is a two sided issue. Nothing is just one side’s fault… ever. I do hope this is as effective as they claim and as cheap to make as they claim. If so I can see bar owners purchasing them and using it as a selling point. Ladies night, woman’s drinks are 1/2 off. Ladies we provide free of charge a drink stirrer that help let you know if that gentleman you just met is really a gentleman.
Report Post »affinnity
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 11:22amMen should be learning about these date drugs too because the gays use this technique also.
Report Post »AlansTigg
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 11:16amnot a fan of having it notify you by cell phone option..too long of a delay, but otherwise whoohoo great product
Report Post »Sail Away
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 9:55amAbout time! I have daughters and I have told them repeatedly to never take a drink from a stranger, watch the bartender as he makes your drink and never put your drink down unattended.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 8:58amGood idea and much needed. That said, these days with late teen and twenty-something girls giving it away, what kind of loser needs to resort to spiking a drink.
Report Post »mailmel0123
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 3:06pmBecause there are a few girls out there who aren‘t giving it away and some punks want to take it from them because they can’t have it any other way. Fortunately there are a few young people out there who respect themselves enough not to take their clothes off for everything with legs. That goes for both sexes. Sadly they are far and few between.
Report Post »KA-T_FTW
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 8:46amNice trolling good sir
Report Post »Charles
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 8:17amOh noooooo! Once my wife gets a hold of one of these my sex life with her will be over! Dammmit
Report Post »Tickdog
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 7:33amJeeze.people still use this crap? what happened to whoooing a girl with your charm?
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 8:36amToday’s young literally want it all, and they want it now.
Report Post »julie b
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 8:38ami’m not sure, but i think wimpy liberal men need them for reproduction with mean, cold liberal women.
Report Post »Sail Away
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 9:56amStill used….had a friends daughter in New York go through a terrible experience because of this damn pill.
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 6:42amUnsuccessful troll is unsuccessful.
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 6:40amWell, your trolling got a bite. Good show sir.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 5:43amif it can be applies in real life this is GREAT
Report Post »ilovethiscountry
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 6:27amAgreed, I will need to get them for my granddaughters.
Report Post »Cat
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 5:42amIt’s about time guys got a break.
Report Post »It gets tiring waking up in a strange women’s bed once every 44 years.
lel2007
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 8:37amI feel your pain.
Report Post »Cat
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 8:55amDid the bar scene for the first time in my mid 40’s for about two weeks.
That was a disastrous decision.
One Friday evening, a strikingly attractive woman sat down directly across the bar.
Nearly every male at the bar offered to buy her a drink except yours truly.
In twenty minutes, she bought yours truly a cocktail and moved to the stool next to me.
She was intelligent, friendly, attentive, very touching and her perfume was hauntingly rich.
Her resemblance to Linda Carter was astounding and ring shadows were absent.
After finishing that cocktail, we were on our way to her place, in her sports car.
The last things clearly recalled; the bartender’s wink, red and orange dash lights, the smell of Italian leather, the distinctive pitch of a twelve-cylinder engine and a giant brass door latch.
In the morning, there was no recollection of the evening and the body ached in new places.
A note left on my belt buckle, “Coffee in the kitchen, be out by noon.”
Report Post »Nothing in the wallet was missing but the memory of the event was gone.
Finding the way to the front door to identify the address was a trip, as the home was huge but sparsely furnished, only a few outfits hung in the wardrobe and there was no artwork or pictures anywhere.
Called a taxi and went to retrieve my car … two towns away and across the bay.
Haven’t been to a bar since.
LadyIzShy
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 5:42amexcuse me? we should be raped because we have morals? you are sick
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 5:33amGlad something such as this is being developed, long time needed, long time in arriving.
Report Post »Lone Ranger
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 3:43amThis thing should also automatically call 911.
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 8:40amI agree. If the device did that I think sneak drug use would become very rare.
Report Post »MidwestMomof3
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 3:30amAs someone who has been the victim of someone dropping Rohypnol in a drink (thankfully my friend and I were sharing the drink and I was out with a group of friends who helped) and the sister of a bar owner who’s always on the look-out on how to protect his patrons…I would LOVE this product and can’t wait to see it on the market!!!
Report Post »Mr. Powers
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 3:29amwtf?
Report Post »superchaos
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 3:26amDidn’t hear that. I did hear a rumor that the date rape drug was used by your dad on your sister and welcomed you into the family. I heard you were invited on the show to answer the rumors. But you haven’t done that, even though you had all this time knowing about this rumor to correct it (if it is untrue), you have done nothing at all–now, I don‘t want to say your dad is guilty, but isn‘t it a little strange that you haven’t answered this allegation to put this rumor to rest? I mean, if your dad is innocent he’s got nothing to hide right? Since you haven’t gone public with the denial, we can all assume it is true.
Report Post »Sounds pretty ridiculous huh. Or is The Third Archon inbred?
BetsyRoss1513
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 3:35pmWHO are you talking to?
Report Post »AlwaysLearning
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 2:32amIs he actually using something approaching a realistic concentration? Dissolving the drug in the little bit of liquid he’s showing would make the concentration huge. Dissolving the drug in an 8 oz glass of wine or highball wouldn’t result in such a large concentration. Yes, same amount of drug, very different amount of liquid to test.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 8:20amI think the key here is that the chemical composition of the alcohol changes and that is what the detector is programmed to find. The actual drug has a specific chemical make up which is the signature that the detector is identifying.
Report Post »AlwaysLearning
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 6:31pmYes, but in what concentration? There can be WMD-type gas around, but it won’t set off alarms until it reaches a certain concentration.
Report Post »fliptailhunter
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 2:26amIts about time
Report Post »Weiners Wiener
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 1:52amThat is awesome. This is the kind of innovention that cannot happen in a country where big government wants to regulate everything to death. Something like this should be enough to win a Nobel Prize, but we know that won’t happen, since they‘re too busy giving that honor to presidents who haven’t done anything and ex-vice presidents who promote global warming scams..
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