Philips to unveil saliva-based roadside drug test later this year

[Enzo]

Philips to unveil saliva-based roadside drug test later this year

by Laura June, posted Aug 6th 2009 at 6:11AM



In the vein of the breathalyzer, Philips has developed an on-the-go drug test, that can be used by the side of the road to test suspected imbibers for cocaine, heroin, cannabis, amphetamines and methaphetamine. Unlike the standard alcohol testing equipment, this one is used by having the suspect spit into a small receptacle, which is then inserted into the measurement chamber which contains magnetic nanoparticles coated with ligands that bind to one of five different drug groups, delivering color coded test results in about 90 seconds. Philips, which has been developing the device since 2001, built it as an optical device that would be easy to mass produce for law enforcement. The company expects to ship them by the end of the year, though there's no word on exactly which markets will employ them as of yet.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/phili...-this-yea/

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Bastards! Fuck you technology lol

[hanaaB]

shit...its spectroscopy to the next level...no doubt it will identify which group of drug has been taken....although i'm doubtful as to the ability of ligands to differenitate accurately between the opiate compounds themselves...they are so structurally similar...cuz then people can bullshit and say they were prescribed fentanyl patches, oramorph or even simple co-codamol for pain...problem solved

[Dumbat]

Probably not a bad thing to stop people on meth from driving, pretty cool that they got a device which can finally do that.

Hopefully it works properly tho, not set off if you chew the wrong type of chewing gum any of that shit.

[noobd]

Nice.