Posted on 05/07/2013 9:46:49 AM PDT by Zakeet
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded more than $400,000 to a research project involving underwear that can detect when a person smokes cigarettes.
The University of Alabama has received two grants totaling $402,721 for the project, which so far has produced a “very early prototype” of the monitoring system, which -- in its current state -- fits like a vest.
The goal of the three-year study is to “develop a wearable sensor system comprised of a breathing sensor integrated into conventional underwear.”
The Personal Automatic Cigarette Tracker (PACT for short) is intended to accurately measure when and how often people smoke as well as how deeply they inhale. The real-time information would be used to design strategies for smoking cessation.
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underwear?!!!!
Is that the next thing bloomberg will force on everyone?
So what happens when you light up...an alarm goes off, the fire dept arrives and blast you with a fire hose...cessation that works.
Holy Bat Crap, Robin. Did I just drop a cigarette down my drawers and set them on fire, or I am trying to do a video imitation of Jerry Lee Lewis’ song “Great Balls of Fire”?
Oh, I see said the blind man. You’ve got to wear a PACT in order to smoke a pack. Gotchya (I mean you the stupid people who are paying for this kind of crap).
I really don’t understand the criticism here. I have all my life been waiting around for cigarette-smoke-sensing underwear. No...really.
When will someone ... anyone ... in DC figure out that we are broke?!?
Just look for the nicotine stains on their shorts!
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