Check the drunk driving anytime and anywhere

Recently, Kickstarter, a US crowdfunding platform, launched a minimal alcohol detector called DrinkMate, which is about the size of a lipstick and weighs less than 6g. Plug in your smartphone and you can measure the amount of alcohol in your body at any time.

Drinking after driving often leads to traffic accidents, and our country’s laws also impose severe penalties on driving after drinking. The law stipulates that the driver's blood alcohol content is greater than or equal to 20mg/l, and is less than 80mg/l for drunk driving. Alcohol content in the blood reaches or exceeds 80mg/l for drunk driving. The drunk driving has a major traffic accident, which constitutes a criminal offence and pursues a criminal responsibility in accordance with the law, and revokes the driver's license and bans driving for life. Drunk driving will be revoked driver's license, 5 years banned.

In addition, in addition to drinking, the driver drinking water, water, edible lychee and other fruits may also be detected in a short time drunk driving, although not drinking but detected it is very troublesome. Did you really know that you only drank a little bit when you arrived at the traffic police? How should I avoid eating oolong which was found to drink and drive?

Now the US crowdfunding platform kickstarter has launched a minimal alcohol detector called DrinkMate, which is about the size of a lipstick and weighs less than 6g. Plug in your smartphone and you can measure the amount of alcohol in your body at any time.

One end of the DrinkMate is a mini USB port, which can be directly connected to a smartphone, and the other end is a detection entrance, and the user needs to blow it toward it. DrinkMate is easy to operate, users only need to insert it into the smart phone, open the APP, blow to the detection port can immediately get the test results. The unit displayed in the test is the blood alcohol concentration. Taking 0.04 as an example, the blood alcohol concentration is 0.04% (g/l), ie 40 mg/l. The detection error is about 0.01% and the highest detectable is 0.20%, ie 200mg/l.

According to reports, DrinkMate was developed by haun Masavage and Mack Redding, where haun Masavage is responsible for the hardware of DrinkMate and MackRedding is responsible for software development. They hope to develop a product that allows people to check whether they drink at any time.

At present, DrinkMate only supports Android systems. The crowdfunding price for the kickstarter is US$25. Currently, it has raised US$82,344. The funds raised will be used for the production of DrinkMate. It is expected to be shipped in November.