Every day, Anicet Mbida makes us discover an innovation that could well change the way we consume.
This Friday, he is interested in the creation of researchers at the Medical and Dental University of Tokyo in Japan, it is a breathalyzer headset to replace balloons.
The innovation of the day comes at the right time with the obligation, since Thursday, to offer alcohol tests in all stores selling alcohol. You've found a new generation of breathalysers that work with headphones.
We are no longer blowing the ball.
You just put a kind of headset on your head.
If it lights up green, it's good, we're in the nails.
But if it is red, it will be a fine and a passage through the sobering-up cell.
This system was developed by researchers at Tokyo Medical and Dental University in Japan.
It analyzes the ethanol vapors given off by the skin around the ears.
And he manages to deduce the alcohol level in the blood as well as a breathalyzer.
With a huge advantage: you can't cheat and pretend you can't breathe.
No more problem with those who are so tipsy that they can't breathe hard enough or long enough.
There, it will suffice to listen to a few notes of music and we will know if you have drunk too much or not.
Why around the ears and not on the finger for example?
Because it is one of the places where the skin releases the most alcohol vapor, twice as much as on the hand (the skin is very thin with a large surface area).
The researchers also believe that it will be more reliable than a breathalyzer, because the measurements do not become completely delusional, as soon as we have used mouthwash or a simple breath-breath.
And it's available, can we buy it?
Soon.
It comes out of laboratories, so we will have to industrialize them further.
We can't wait for them to arrive.
For comfort, of course, but also for the ecological aspect.
Since there will no longer be a single-use plastic tube to throw away.
But in the meantime, still think about blowing the balloon and above all, avoid driving if you have been drinking.