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hi I'm Wayne Cunningham and I'm Kaitlin Petrak of it and we are here taking a look at the breath ometer now this is a breathalyzer attachment for the iPhone and it kind of explains why we have a couple of bottles of booze here if we're gonna try it out the breath ometer is the vise here it's about the size of a airplane bottle or a couple of double-a batteries it's got a little hatch in the side here where you can fit a triple-a battery that powers the thing but it needs an iPhone to actually do anything at all so it has this little retractable pin here that goes into the iPhones headphone jack so I got my iphone handy right here and put this thing up together and it's like oh wait it won't go in the top because this is an iPhone 5 breath ometer really seems to design for iPhones for so I have to plug it into the headphone jack in the bottom here I also have an app for the breath ometer on my iPhone it really won't work with the out the app and you see a nice big blue Start button here and that's that's how you go it's a pretty easy to start that process so Caitlin how much do you think you've had to drink so far I've had you know probably a regular glass of a 10% beer that's sounds pretty hefty you think you're safe to drive I think I could drive ok well let's test that out ok so I'm gonna push the start button it's gonna wait a few seconds while it calibrates then you blow into this little blue glowing hole here ok for about five seconds really it's just as breathe in then exhale into the sensor analyzing testing and process ah that's a pretty happy result it's a big red ring - yeah way over now that I don't think that's actually an accurate result because I haven't seen you drink a whole lot today except for a bit of this yeah so beans yeah seems a lot what I've seen from the barometer is that well one thing they say is you're not supposed to use it until twenty minutes after your last term and so you might have like I mean it's been about two minutes right you might have breathe out some like alcohol directly into the thing so I'll give it a try I've been drinking whiskey here but it's been I don't know like ten maybe fifteen means I've had a drink so we'll give that a try it's analyzing my breath right now my whiskey breath and it gave me a point zero wow I have not had a single thing to drink so that's actually one of my critiques of this thing is professional breathalyzer will often have a nozzle sort of thing plastic do any of you blow directly into this just has a sort of open area here so when you've had a few drinks you might kind of blow around it or not really blow accurately into the sensor this thing only cost about $50 so it's a fairly cheap addition to the iPhone although you can find a lot of breathalyzers online for a bit cheaper a lot of keychain breathalyzer is that kind of thing what I found with this is it's it's pretty fun of parties in a bar people always want to give it a try and see what it comes out with but I would not rely on it to tell you whether you're safe to drive or not you can you should really just count how many drinks you've had and decide whether safe or not and go very conservative with that number two well anyway I'm Wayne Cunningham and I'm Kaitlin Petrak of it and we were looking at the a the breath ometer breathalyzer for the iPhone