Bracelet created by UW students alerts drinkers of their intoxicated state
Sep 24, 2014, 6:49 AM | Updated: 7:59 am
A bracelet developed by University of Washington students aims to monitor how drunk you are, and then tells you – and your friends – when it’s time for you to be cut off.
The bracelet, called “Vive,” squeezes your wrist as if to say, “Don’t you think you’ve had enough?”
Vive syncs with an app on your phone, as well your friends’ bracelets and phones.
Sensors detect how drunk or dehydrated, and the bracelet vibrates in intervals.
“(That prompts) you to check your surroundings in your mental and physical state,” the creators of Vive describe in a video. You’re supposed to return a simple squeeze of the bracelet in order to indicate you’re having fun and are in control.
When you’ve had too much to drink and can’t feel the bracelet’s warnings, or you’re simply not dismiss the bracelet’s latest warnings, it alerts your “party group.”
In the end, the party group is supposed to save the bracelet-wearer from passing out on the couch.
Vive was awarded the “Best Product Concept” at the Microsoft Research Design Expo this summer.
