<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>Wasabi Silent Fire Alarm scents-ses fire, awakens the deaf : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Wasabi Silent Fire Alarm scents-ses fire, awakens the deaf : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wasabi Silent Fire Alarm scents-ses fire, awakens the deaf]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53980/1/</link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%' style='padding-top:5px;margin-bottom:0px;' class='trh'><tr valign='bottom'><td><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'><tr valign='bottom'><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabs lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-comments'><a href='/plime-com/l/53980/1/' class='plime2 td mn'>comments (10)</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-related'><a href='/plime-com/l/53980-related/1/' class='plime td mn'>related</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-share'><a href='/plime-com/l/53980-share/1/' class='plime td mn'>share</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-history'><a href='/plime-com/l/53980-history/1/' class='plime td mn'>edit history (0)</a></td></tr></table></td><td class='minitabspc' style='width:100%' valign='middle'><table width='100%'><tr class='regular'><td align='right'> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&lt;</a><span> <b><a class='page-selected td' href='/plime-com/l/53980/1/'>1</a></b> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&gt;</a></span></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><item><title><![CDATA[Mitzuzake @ 3/13/2008 6:22:15 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53980/1/rss0_91.rss#q11</link><description><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/health/l/53980/1/#q10"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>donteatpoop</b>&#160;: That s**t'll wake up a corpse.</i></div>&quot;Wazombie&quot;... 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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[donteatpoop @ 3/13/2008 4:23:23 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53980/1/rss0_91.rss#q10</link><description><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/plime-com/l/53980/1/#q9"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>lkrofct</b>&#160;:&#160;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.</i></div>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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[lkrofct @ 3/12/2008 11:41:19 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53980/1/rss0_91.rss#q9</link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mitzuzake @ 3/12/2008 7:06:48 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53980/1/rss0_91.rss#q8</link><description><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/health/l/53980/1/#q5"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>RowanGrey</b>&#160;:&#160;Uh... wouldn't the smell of FIRE alert them to a fire?</i></div>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).]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wasabi @ 3/12/2008 6:39:26 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53980/1/rss0_91.rss#q7</link><description><![CDATA[That's sweet.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Yeah, I'm not dead.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[donteatpoop @ 3/12/2008 4:03:06 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53980/1/rss0_91.rss#q6</link><description><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/health/l/53980/1/#q3"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>MandolinOrange</b>&#160;:&#160;or if they have a cold.</i></div>No, the wasabi should clear up ANY cold.<br/><br/>I'm afraid people will huddle in the kitchen expecting sushi only to die hungry in a blazing inferno.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[RowanGrey @ 3/12/2008 1:55:24 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53980/1/rss0_91.rss#q5</link><description><![CDATA[Uh... wouldn't the smell of FIRE alert them to a fire?]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[osiris12 @ 3/12/2008 12:39:38 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53980/1/rss0_91.rss#q4</link><description><![CDATA[I thought the test subjects comment was ironically funny...<br/><br/><div class='qp pad d'><i> &quot;It reminded me of a time when I ate too much wasabi&quot;</i></div>Thank you Captain Obvious.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[MandolinOrange @ 3/12/2008 12:14:50 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53980/1/rss0_91.rss#q3</link><description><![CDATA[or if they have a cold.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[coldbladed @ 3/12/2008 12:06:56 PM]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53980/1/rss0_91.rss#q2</link><description><![CDATA[Good idea, except for any time when they're using Wasabi in their food prep/consumption...]]></description></item></channel></rss>