Israeli scientists develop date-rape drug detector
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[QUOTE]The days of having to cart your cocktail to the ladies room may be over: two Israeli scientists say they have developed a sensor that can accurately detect date-rape drugs in drinks 100 percent of the time.Professor Fernando Patolsky and Doctor Michael Ioffe of Tel Aviv University's school of chemistry say the sensor can tell you in real time whether your martini or your mocktail has been spiked with either of the two most common date-rape drugs.
"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."
The device sucks up a tiny drop of the suspect beverage and puts it in contact with the patentedchemical formula devised by Patolsky and Ioffe.
"The drug itself is reacting with this chemical formulation and the previously clear formula becomes dirty and when the light shines it you can detect it," Ioffe said. "You don't have to do anything but dip it in your drink."
The two scientists tested their device on a range of popular cocktails as well as soft drinks and other beverages and found it was able to correctly tell which had been spiked 100 percent of the time.
"What's amazing is that there is no false positives until now," Ioffe said.
At present, the device can accurately detect the presence of the two of the most-commonly used date-rape drugs: GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyric acid) and ketamine.
The scientists are also working to expand the device's detection capacity to include Rohypnol, another drug commonly used to sedate the victims of date rape.
"We have some very, very optimistic preliminary results," Ioffe said. "All we need is money."
The pair expect the first batch of sensors could be commercially available within a year and a half.
The chemical formula that the device uses is cheap to produce and is not poisonous, meaning companies should be able to produce the sensor without requiring government approval.
All that remains is for the producers to decide how the device will let its users know whether their drink is safe for consumption, and a range of options are being considered, Ioffe said.
"We haven't decided how it will let you know. Maybe it will just light up or a part of it will rotate or maybe it will send a signal to your cell phone because you want to be discreet about it."[/QUOTE]
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F[/URL]OR SCIENCE! Now, women can feel safe, in bars!
For some reason, when I read that title I thought you were talking about some of these-
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And that the development was a chemical that checks if someone raped them.
I don't even know what's going on with my mind right now
DAMNIT NOW I WILL NEVER GET LAID
It'll be cool if bars had glasses with these build in.
[QUOTE=Glorbo;31627544]For some reason, when I read that title I thought you were talking about some of these[/QUOTE]
Well you don't need a drug to rape those. Well, maybe the rapist does.
[QUOTE=Glorbo;31627544]For some reason, when I read that title I thought you were talking about some of these-
[img]http://www.orfresh.com/products_pictures/madjul-dates01.jpg[/img]
And that the development was a chemical that checks if someone raped them.
I don't even know what's going on with my mind right now[/QUOTE]
You're weird
We'll just find other ways.
Put it in a grape, make a cookie with it, or a muffin.
When all else fails, chloroform.
[QUOTE=joost1120;31627639]We'll just find other ways.
Put it in a grape, make a cookie with it, or a muffin.
When all else fails, chloroform.[/QUOTE]
Put it in a date, where's your sense of irony?
[QUOTE=joost1120;31627639]We'll just find other ways.
Put it in a grape, make a cookie with it, or a muffin.
When all else fails, chloroform.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but too much Chloroform causes heart attacks, I can never get the right amount.
[QUOTE=Desolategrunt;31628097]Yeah but too much Chloroform causes heart attacks, I can never get the right amount.[/QUOTE]
As long as their not cold, you're good to go.
[QUOTE=Glorbo;31627544]For some reason, when I read that title I thought you were talking about some of these-
[img]http://www.orfresh.com/products_pictures/madjul-dates01.jpg[/img]
And that the development was a chemical that checks if someone raped them.
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Bad dates.
[QUOTE=s0beit;31627692]Put it in a date, where's your sense of irony?[/QUOTE]
Xzibit must've taken it when he heard that.
And that's not ironic btw.
[QUOTE=Charlievrw;31635461]As long as their not cold, you're good to go.[/QUOTE]
they are warm for a couple hours, all I need is 20 minutes
Alright facepunch user, we all better just accept defeat and get out some lotion...
[quote]another drug commonly used to sedate the victims of date rape.[/quote]
Oh for fuck sake, rohypnol is used less than 1% of the time.
Guess what the biggest date rape drug is?
[h2]Alcohol[/h2]
[editline]10th August 2011[/editline]
That being said, this is interesting sensor technology, and I can't wait to see what other applications it has.
[QUOTE=Contag;31636167]Oh for fuck sake, rohypnol is used less than 1% of the time.
Guess what the biggest date rape drug is?
[h2]Alcohol[/h2]
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should i ask how you know that
[QUOTE=poopernooper;31636201]should i ask how you know that[/QUOTE]
Because he's more intelligent than you?
It doesn't take much to figure out that the media hypes up the use of so-called 'date rape drugs' and neglects to mention that when a girl is coerced into having sex when she's so drunk she can't consent, it's rape. Why? Because the former is sensational; the latter is routine.
Evidently critical thinking is a bit much to ask of you.
[QUOTE=poopernooper;31636201]should i ask how you know that[/QUOTE]
Go to a bar.
Offer to buy a girl a drink.
Offer another girl to buy her a few tablets of rohypnol.
Observe the differences.
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