I'VE BEEN DRINKING, so see if you can tell in the writing of this blurb about BACTRACK ($80, Bactrack.com). The sleek gizmo is slimmer than a cellphone and more fun than a BlackBerry.

Here's the deal: You have to wait 20 minutes after eating or drinking anything to play (which is, admittedly, a buzz kill). Then you press the power button, let the screen light up and begin a countdown from 50. At about 10, start inhaling a big breath and, when it hits zero, breathe out for five seconds (not in a blow-out-the-candles way, but so that you make the sound "hhhhaaa").

Either through technology or magic (depending on how many glasses you've had), it displays your blood alcohol content. After a teensy bit of vodka and some sauvignon blanc, I'm at .02, which the enclosed booklet correctly tells me is accompanied by slight euphoria and loss of shyness.

Image courtesy BACTRACK

Posted by Vicky Hallett at 11:24 AM on August 21, 2007
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