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All this weekend, I'm at Electromagnetic Field, the enormous hacker camp in the middle of the UK.

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And this is the first thing I didn't know that I found out here.

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I'm with Toby Jackson from Nottingham Hackspace and his marvelous booze fogger.

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What on Earth is this?

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This is my contribution to the BarBot project, which is kind of being built behind you.

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Basically, a device for turning alcohol and spirits into a rather nice inhalable mist.

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It's not a complicated device. It's mostly pretty work in a nice suitcase, but deep inside it

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with my wonderful wiring is two glass tubes which have inside two ultrasonic foggers which have

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a little brass plate that vibrates ultrasonically, which just smashes whatever liquid is in there

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to tiny, tiny droplets, which then float. You can buy them off the Internet. You want the ones

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that cost about £20. It's a heavier-than-air mist, so we have this little air pump which just goes in there

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and ensures that, in proper mad scientist fashion, you get this rather nice effect.

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And it's swirling over the top. So, basically, it's to look pretty and to be fun.

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Does it get people drunk?

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It makes drunk people think they're drunk. In a column  of this, you get about two or three teaspoonfuls of booze

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Take the lid off and you can inhale it in, as I just did, and you get a bit of a head rush.

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And you get it here in the back of your throat. Once you've got a few drinks in you, it'll make you go,

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"Ooh, hello," and be a little bit drunker than you were beforehand. So, it's relatively safe,

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but it just feels like it's a lot more of a-

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You said "relatively safe"?

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Yeah, you are inhaling alcohol -- you're inhaling droplets of vodka into your lungs.

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That's kind of a bad idea. But many fun things are bad ideas. So if you start putting your face mask

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on this sort of thing, and inhaling, inhaling, inhaling, that's going to mess you up

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because basically, if you drink too much, you throw up, and, you know, have a bad time.

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If you inhale too much, you can't breathe it back out. You can't throw it up. There's no body safety mechanism.

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Your body's not designed to go, "Oh yeah, I can throw this stuff up."

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It just goes, "Oh god, I've-.." and then, you know, liver poisoning.

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It's not a very good idea in the first place, but if you're under 18, it's illegal. C'mon kids, play safe.

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Lovely, thank you very much.

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