TruTouch 2000 promises to detect intoxication with a finger scan
By Donald Melanson 
posted January 20th 2010 2:16PM
posted January 20th 2010 2:16PM
TruTouch Technologies has been working on various non-invasive means to detect intoxication for quite a while now (like the rather elaborate TruTouch Guardian pictured at right), but it looks like it's set to simplify things even further with its new TruTouch 2000 device, which has apparently passed though clinical tests with flying colors. Like the Guardian, the TruTouch 2000 uses near infrared light to detect possible intoxication, but it's apparently able to do that by simply scanning your finger instead of your entire forearm. Quite the leap, to be sure, but TruTouch says that the device is able to 'produce accurate results in less than 15 seconds," and that it packs a built-in biometric identification system to ensure the test results are legit. No timeline for an actual deployment of the device just yet, but it looks like TruTouch has its eye on applications far beyond the expected law enforcement uses -- including even vehicle safety systems, and "Alcohol Point-Of-Sale Liability Reduction Systems."
Obviously this has great uses to prevent deaths/injuries from drunk driving and other things but I could see this used improperly as well.
How about a cab fare discount eligibility scan?
Oh wait that would be too pro-consumer.
@Wwhat
HAHA Awesome comment.
I love it!
my bar needs one!
@therodt
You could save a lot of lives if you allowed your bar-goers access to that before they drive home at the end of the night. Don't charge them, either.
That would be VERY honorable of you.
So is this for only alcohol? If not I would love to see the documentation on that so called "clinical trial".
Not long before they have one of these outside of every high school prom... oh (big) brother...
Must've been fun testing this thing.
Every bar in the US should be legally required to have a functional BAC reader that is easily accessible by it's patrons. Doesn't that make sense?
Seriously, even if they charged a dollar to use it, some nights it would be nice to know for sure.
Seems like bad marketing to label anything 2000 after the year 2000 has passed. That was so 10 years ago.
"But offisher, the reason I have so much alcohol in my fingers is because my frat broshers were holding me upside down over the keg."
Beware big brother! For where in the constitution is there anything about MDMA, Marijuana, or Cocaine? Are we not free to sit on a snickers bar if that pleases us? More money for the Drug Enjoyment Agency and their partners in the war against your freedom and rights. How about they develop a device for rapidly testing wall street bankers and insurance company executives for avarice infections!
I SWEAR DRUNK, I'M NOT OFFICER!!!
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