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Move over strobe alarms … its the smell-alarm!
One of the things that crosses my mind every time I think of our smoke alarm at home is … what happens if I don’t wake up?
My husband is Deaf, my kids both have hearing losses, and sleep like logs (and in any case, studies have shown that kids often won’t hear an alarm)…the strobe isn’t bright enough to wake up my hubby…
Well, someone in Japan obviously had a similar idea (they are marvellous at “thinking outside the box”, the Japanese, aren’t they?)
Enter the Japanese stinkerator … smellorator? … hmmm well anyway, it is a smoke alarm that sprays the smell of horseradish!
Shiga University of Medical Science Hospital cooperated with the makers and carried out experiments to see if the horseradish smell can wake up people from a deep sleep.
Fourteen people, including those with hearing disabilities, took part in the experiments.
In the experiment, 13 out of the 14 subjects woke up in less than two minutes after the smell reached their noses.
The people with hearing disabilities were particularly quick to wake up, with one person emerging from sleep in just 10 seconds.
What will they think of next?
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Hmm .. seems the National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders was thinking along the same lines…