Design student Sneha Rao is developing Tact, an edible pregnancy test that allows people with vision impairment to feel its results on their tongues

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[–] 16 points 1 month ago (5 children)

i really hope they don't have to pee on it first...

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    an edible device that could detect hCG in saliva. “The premise was that […] if saliva can replace urine as the sample, the whole device can go in the mouth, be used and be consumed,” she explains. Human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG, is a hormone that is only produced in the body nearly six to ten days after conception. “There’s enough research about how saliva can detect hCG and give you a 96 percent accurate result about whether you’re pregnant or not,” says Rao.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

    I can somewhat see this becoming popular among normal sighted women too for that reason, assuming it's not cost prohibitive.

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