Wasabi Silent Fire Alarm scents-ses fire, awakens the deaf Posted: 7 months ago by Mitzuzake
Wasabi, or Japanese Horseradish, has a particularly pungent taste and scent. Now researchers in Japan are using Wasabi's overpowering odor in a new type of smoke detector / fire alarm that wakes the deaf through scent instead of sound.
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Posted: 7 months ago by coldbladed:
Good idea, except for any time when they're using Wasabi in their food prep/consumption...
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Posted: 7 months ago by MandolinOrange:
or if they have a cold.
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Posted: 7 months ago by osiris12:
I thought the test subjects comment was ironically funny...

"It reminded me of a time when I ate too much wasabi"
Thank you Captain Obvious.
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Posted: 7 months ago by RowanGrey:
Uh... wouldn't the smell of FIRE alert them to a fire?
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Posted: 7 months ago by donteatpoop:
« MandolinOrange : or if they have a cold.
No, the wasabi should clear up ANY cold.

I'm afraid people will huddle in the kitchen expecting sushi only to die hungry in a blazing inferno.
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Posted: 7 months ago by Wasabi:
That's sweet.




Yeah, I'm not dead.
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Posted: 7 months ago by Mitzuzake:
« RowanGrey : Uh... wouldn't the smell of FIRE alert them to a fire?
Before they could smell something burning, the odorless, toxic Carbon Monoxide produced by the fire would have knocked them out. The alarm is also a detector. Heh! (couldn't resist).
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Posted: 7 months ago by lkrofct:
I go to a school where there is a pretty large deaf community. The doorbells in the dorms are blinking lights, as well as blinking lights and sound (for the hearing) for the fire alarms. I don't know, I just don't think smell would wake me up.
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Posted: 7 months ago by donteatpoop:
« lkrofct : I go to a school where there is a pretty large deaf community. The doorbells in the dorms are blinking lights, as well as blinking lights and sound (for the hearing) for the fire alarms. I don't know, I just don't think smell would wake me up.
Have you ever smelled wasabi? It's that green horseradish stuff that you get with sushi. If you haven't smelled it, go put your nose close up next to it and take a whiff. That s**t'll wake up a corpse.
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Posted: 7 months ago by Mitzuzake:
« donteatpoop : That s**t'll wake up a corpse.
"Wazombie"... they could mold the green paste into little brains. Kinda 'Night of the August Teahouse' meets 'Night of the Living Dead'. OK, i'll stop.
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