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Undercover colors8/6/2023 In an interview with Higher Education Works, UC team member Ankesh Madan said that he and all of his team members “have been close to someone who has been through the terrible experience” of sexual assault, and that’s how they came up with the idea of creating a product that might prevent the crime. We are Undercover Colors and we are the first fashion company empowering women to prevent sexual assault. In effect, we want to shift the fear from the victims to the perpetrators. Through this nail polish and similar technologies, we hope to make potential perpetrators afraid to spike a woman’s drink because there’s now a risk that they can get caught. Our goal is t o invent technologies that empower women to protect themselves from this heinous and quietly pervasive crime. While date rape drugs are often used to facilitate sexual assault, very little science exists for their detection. They are our daughters, they are our girlfriends, and they are our friends. We may not know who they are, but these women are not faceless. That’s almost one out of every five women in our country. ![]() In the U.S., 18% of women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime. I’m not the only one who’s into the idea UC won $11,250 from the Lulu eGames this past spring, a contest held by North Carolina State’s Entrepreneurship Initiative where “s tudents from all disciplines to collaborate to develop solutions to real world challenges” and has also received $100,000 from an investor who saw their product demo at the K50 Startup Showcase.įrom the UC Facebook page, here’s how the company talks about their product: All you have to do is dip your UC-varnished fingertip in your drink, and if drugs like Rohypnol, Xanax, or GHB are present, your nail color will change. Materials Science & Engineering undergraduate students Ankesh Madan, Tasso Von Windheim, Tyler Confrey-Maloney, and Stephan Gray are the founders and creators of Undercover Colors, “The First Fashion Company Empowering Women To Prevent Sexual Assault,” and the idea is both impressive and incredibly useful. ![]() We love a good mani or some cute nail art, but wouldn’t your polish game be way better if it also fought sexual assault? Four undergrad dudes at North Carolina State University have developed a prototype for a new nail polish line called Undercover Colors – a polish that changes color when it comes in contact with date rape drugs.
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