College Entrepreneurs Seeking To Put A Stop To Date-Rape Drugs

Prowlers beware, your days are numbered. A group of four female PhD students at NC State have created a nail polish that can detect the presence of date-rape drugs in a woman's drink. 

According to AVN (link below), this breakthrough will deal a majorly necessary blow to sexual predators.

Undercover Colors—the brainchild of engineers and PhD students Ankesh Madan, Stephen Gray, Tasso Von Windheim, and Tyler Confrey-Maloney—bills itself as the First Fashion Company Working To Prevent Sexual Assault. Their creation is nail polish that changes colors when exposed to Rohypnol and GHB, commonly referred to as date rape drugs.

When applied, a woman can simply swirl her finger through a drink to see if the colorless and odorless drugs are present.

“In the U.S., 18 percent of women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime,” the Undercover Colors team notes on their Facebook page, which already has more than 35,000 likes.  “That’s almost one out of every five women in our country. They are our daughters, they are our girlfriends, and they are our friends.

“While date rape drugs are often used to facilitate sexual assault, very little science exists for their detection.  Our goal is to invent technologies that empower women to protect themselves from this heinous and quietly pervasive crime.”

Via AVN