Smart cups will change colour when a date rape drug is poured into it
Drink Savvy, a Boston-based company, has created a material that
changes colour when it comes in contact with a drug-spiked drink.
Founder Mike Abramson said he plans to use the discovery to create a
set of products, including cups, glassware, stirrers and straws, that he
hopes will be used to help reduce date rape, reports ABC News.
"Within the past three years, three of my very close friends and myself
have been the unwitting victims of being drugged," Abramson said in a
fundraising video.
The company is trying to raise $50,000 so it can produce the cups and
straws and begin selling them online, according to a fundraising appeal
posted on the website Indiegogo.
Date rape drugs, including the three most common, GHB, Ketamine and
Rohypnol, are odourless, colourless and tasteless, according to the
National Institute on Drug Abuse, making them difficult to detect.
Abramson estimates that more than a million people every year are
drugged and sexually assaulted. In the video he said he hopes his
product will "prevent someone you care about from possibly being the
victim of drug-facilitated sexual assault."
Last year, Israeli scientists announced the development of a sensor
that looks like a straw or a stirrer that can detect two of the most
commonly used date rape drugs with 100 percent accuracy.
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