Keep up with the Undercover Colors progress on its Facebook page and website. Undercover Colors was developed by four Carolina State University students as a means of detecting date-rape drugs in drinks on a night out. Undercover Colors is not currently available on the market, but Madan said that is the team’s ultimate goal. North Carolina State has graciously offered to assist the team, providing them with lab space and the ability to test with schedule 1 drugs–the type Undercover Colors is meant to detect, according to Madan. And so the idea of creating a nail polish that detects date rape drugs was born.” That’s including the 100,000 the Raleigh firm raised during the summer. “We wanted to focus on preventive solutions, especially those that could be integrated into products that women already use. Rape drug-detecting nail polish startup Undercover Colors has closed on 300,000.All of us have been close to someone who has been through the terrible experience, and we began to focus on finding a way to help prevent the crime. As we were thinking about big problems in our society, the topic of drug-facilitated sexual assault came up. Our goal is to invent technologies that empower women to protect themselves from this heinous and quietly pervasive crime.”Īnkesh Madan, one of the four students, said in an interview with Higher Education Works, “Undercover Colors started out as an idea born in my co-founders’ active imaginations. In the U.S., 18 of women will be sexually assaulted in. “While date rape drugs are often used to facilitate sexual assault, very little science exists for their detection. The team invented Undercover Colors, a nail polish that changes color if it comes into contact with date rape drugs Rohypnol and GHB. They are our daughters, they are our girlfriends, and they are our friends. “That’s almost one out of every five women in our country. “In the U.S., 18% of women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime,” the Undercover Colors team said in a Facebook post. The team invented “Undercover Colors,” a nail polish that changes color if it comes into contact with date rape drugs Rohypnol and GHB. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.įour undergraduates at North Carolina State University have a unique invention that’s a fashionable as it is functional.
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