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# Breathalyzer Meets iPhone

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## Video: Breathalyzer Meets iPhone

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_Published 2013-05-07. The $150 BACtrack Mobile Breathalyzer connects to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and lets you measure your blood alcohol content. But like all good gadgets, it takes things a step further._


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## Transcript

I'm Dough Amath, I'm four beers deep, and we're checking out the Backtrack Bluetooth Breathalyzer. It is 11: 50 on a Tuesday morning. Let's hop in the Wayback Machine to 20 minutes ago when this all started. Don't worry, I'm not that drunk. Okay. Keep an eye on the clock behind me. It's 11: 30 exactly. Four beers from Holland [ MUSIC ]. [ MUSIC ] This one's a little foamy. [ SOUND ] Okay. That's four beers down. And now we're gonna wait 15 minutes It is 11: 33. At approximately 11: 40, math, we'll take a breathalyzer reading. Oh, while we're waiting, I'm gonna use the blood alcohol content estimator to input that I just drank four beers.

Done. It has a whole database of beers already in here. So it says right now my blood alcohol content should be about . 05, and I may be sober in three hours and five minutes. We'll see about that. While we're waiting, still got about seven or eight minutes, I'm gonna test my fine motor skills And you may be saying to yourself, Doug are those crocs that you're wearing in 2013 and my answer to you is no, these are not crocs. These are knock off crocs. I don't know if they call them croocks or cricks, but I paid $ 10 for them. Okay, 11. 48 estimated to be a. 05 We'll take the reading to see, where its at.

[ SOUND ] [ MUSIC ] 0. 058, hit [ NOISE ] okey. Did you wait 15 minutes or more, for this test? Yes. Who's reading? It's mine. And then you can tag your drink. Okay, this was a beer. It was 12 ounces. It's an Amstel light. Done. You can add a photo. There they are. [ MUSIC ] And then you plot your point on a map and then you can see all the other drunkards around you. That's so Because everything needs to be social, can't not be social with anything. Right? So, social drunkeness. Same clothes. And then you can share to Facebook, you can text it to a friend, [ COUGH ] come pick me up, look how drunk I am.

[ MUSIC ] Here's my location. So, all in all, 150 bucks, thinkgeek. com. This is the backtrack bluetooth breathalyzer. I thought I would be a lot drunker than I am right now. I thought this video would be, well [ LAUGH ] wasn't great. But, at least I finished it.

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