INVENTOR TURNS SMARTPHONE INTO BREATHALIZER
Ben Biron and Jonathan Ofir, Alcohoot founders. (inc.com image) Ben Biron is a 24-year-old Israeli army veteran who has invented a fully portable breathalyzer that plugs into your smartphone, according to the Huffington Post. Biron calls it Alcohoot , and touts it as “the world's first smartphone breathalyzer.” The ultra-modern, space-age design of the device comes with an app that not only charts blood-alcohol levels over the course of a user-programmed time period but links users with nearby taxis and post-bar restaurants, hotels and more, too. Biron says his motivation for his invention is to decrease drunken driving and all its associated bad consequences. Biron and his co-founder, Jonathan Ofir, first became aware of the seriousness of drunk driving in 2010 as soldiers in the Israel Defense Force. No one could avoid a sign posted prominently at the ar...
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