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Rehab gave LinLo a cool new gadget

By Bitesize ⋅ July 18, 2007 ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

When Lindsay Lohan finished her time in rehab this weekend, she walked outta there with a new funky gadget to play with. It wasn’t her iPhone. Instead it was a blood alcohol monitoring device. Pretty cool in the way it works and what it does.

This is a step in the right direction for Lindsay who is serious about her acting roles and wants to drop the party image she has achieved.

The device named SCRAM for short (”Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring”) is a kind of cross between a prison tag, and a pgeing device from the 80’s/90’s. But what it does is way more advanced.

Lindsay wears hers on her ankle so lets see what it does. First it monitors the sweat for blood alcohol. Although not fool proof, false positives should be few and far between. But if your wondering what can cause it to throw up a false positive i’ll tell you before the end of this post.

So, this is how it works. For anybody not wanting to watch the flash movie heres the basics. The SCRAM monitors the sweat of the wearer. If it detects a blood alcohol level higher then 0.02% it records it to its internal memory (Flash card) and then uploads its info to the company website for analysis. Pretty cool huh?

Well for those who wanted to know what throws up a  false positive.(False positive is when the wearer hasn’t drunk any alcohol but the device shows alcohol.) Why? Well because the body can produce alcohol on small levels on its own, From things such as bread and chocolate to medical conditions.

This isn’t the kind of device that will magically help you give up alcohol. But is the kind of device that can help you achieve your goal of sobriety. If you’ve got the will power. The device will surely help you. Just like it helping Lindsay.

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