New straws and cups tell you if your drink has been spiked

Let’s face it. Date-rape drugs and roofies are a reality we cannot run away from. If mixed in your drink, they can knock you out and it almost always results in bad things happening to you. The scary bit about roofies and date-rape drugs are that they are odourless and colourless. You would not even notice the difference in your drink once they’ve been slipped in. But there’s help at hand.

A company called DrinkSavvy has a way for you to spot a spiked drink. DrinkSavvy decided to remove the invisibility factor and wanted to make the drugs ‘visible’. So they created colour-changing straws and cups. After a successful crowd-funding outing in December last year, the company is all set to start shipping cups and straws that change colours to warn you if your drink contains GHB, Rohypnol or Ketamine, three commonly-used drugs to spike drinks.

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These cups will tell you if your drink has been spiked

The company’s founder Michael Abramson says in his pitch video that he struck upon this idea after three of his friends and he himself was roofied while drinking out with friends. Abramson launched a crowd-funding campaign on Indiegogo in November last year that went on for a little over a month. The campaign aimed to raise $50,000 for further developing the technology as well as manufacturing the straws and cups. It finally ended up raising $2,000 more than its goal. DrinkSavvy eventually aims to work on making glasses and bottles that can tell you whether your drink is spiked or not.

DrinkSavvy has straws too

The company aims to make these cups and straws available to the public sometime next year and says rape crisis centres will have free access to these. Let’s hope this concept make its way to other parts of the world too and help put a stop to date-rapes.