If keeping track of the number of drinks you consume seems like too much of a bother, Dhairya Dand has created magical ice cubes to alert you when you’ve had enough. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student designed special smart cubes, dubbed ‘cheers’, equipped with LED lights, an accelerometer, IR receivers and a battery to alert drinkers when it is time to stop drinking, reports Discovery News on Jan. 17.
All this came about after Dand found himself “over-served” and woke up in the hospital after a party.
The electronics of the cubes are encased in a gel that protects them from the liquor and does not affect the flavor of the drink.
As the person drinks, the accelerometer counts the drinks and compares them to the amount of time that has passed. The LED lights turn from green to yellow and ultimately to red when the drinker has had enough.
If the drinker continues once the lights turn red, a text message is automatically sent to a friend via a cell phone to alert him the drinker needs assistance.
But that’s not all these magical ice cubes can do. The lights flash in time to the ambient noise – such as the music at the party.
When ABC News asked if he intended to patent his invention, Dand responded:
“I believe in open-source. My inventions are open to be hacked, developed and played around with. True innovations are like ideas with wings, once they take birth in a mind, nothing, not even the inventor, can stop them.”
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