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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsResearch Team of the Year Award Coming to These Four Students (if there isn't we should invent one)
Amazing New Invention: A Nail Polish That Detects Date RapeAn undergraduate team at North Carolina State University might have just revolutionized your make-up drawer. The four students are working to develop a nail polish that changes color if it comes into contact with date rape drugs Rohypnol and GHB. That means that women who wear the new polishdubbed Undercover Colorscould determine whether their drink has had an unwelcome ingredient added just by dipping in a finger.
In the U.S.,18% of women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime, the team wrote on their Facebook page. They are our daughters, they are our girlfriends, and they are our friends. Our goal is to invent technologies that empower women to protect themselves from this heinous and quietly pervasive crime.
The team behind Undercover Colors.
In effect, we want to shift the fear from the victims to the perpetrators, they continued, to become the first fashion company empowering women to prevent sexual assault.
Three cheers to that. The team behind Undercover ColorsAnkesh Madan, Stephan Gray, Tasso Von Windheim, and Tyler Confrey-Maloneyjust raised $100,000 from one investor after appearing at the K50 Startup Showcase, the Triangle Business Journal reports. Theyre looking for more funding to refine the current prototype. We hope they get it: Their invention is an amazingly simple concept that could do so much to empower and protect women.
read: http://hellogiggles.com/awesome-new-invention-date-rape-drug-detecting-nail-polish
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Research Team of the Year Award Coming to These Four Students (if there isn't we should invent one) (Original Post)
bigtree
Aug 2014
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Exultant Democracy
(6,594 posts)1. This is awesome. This take wearable tech to a new level.
Sinistrous
(4,249 posts)2. Kudos all around!
Suich
(10,642 posts)3. What a fantastic idea!!!
raven mad
(4,940 posts)4. What warms my heart
is that they are all (to me, I'm 60) boys!
My daughter, my granddaughter................ hell yeah!
tblue37
(65,487 posts)5. KnR! I wish I could rec this a thousand times! nt
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)6. That's brilliant!
Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)7. Kicked, recommended and kudos to these young men.
Thanks for the thread, bigtree.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)8. Smart as hell
Good on em. And here's hoping the sleazebags who pull that shit get booted out the door and shunned big time.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)9. Brilliant!
Not taking anything away from these 4 smart young men, but what I would also like to see is a quartet of young women who could figure out how to prevent rape from occurring to begin with.
For example, a chewing gum which tastes sweet to the female and bitterly sour to the male.
MH1
(17,600 posts)10. Excellent! A giant K & R for this!
City Lights
(25,171 posts)11. Awesome!