A beauty company has developed a nail polish that can detect the most common date rape drugs purely by dipping your painted nail into your drink.

If drugs including Xanax, Rohypnol and GHB are present, the polish will change colour to alert you of the danger that your drink has probably been spiked.

Undercover Colors are the brand behind this venture and developed the product out of a desire to help female university friends in particular stay safe while dating and going to bars.Now with £5.5 million of investment being put into the products, it could soon see a range of these colour change nail polishes hitting shelves.

This brings a whole new meaning to wearable tech and speaking of the launch, the company says:“1 in 6 women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime. This unthinkable problem has reached epidemic levels on college campuses and something must be done about it. Power must be handed back to women in what is a devastatingly powerless situation.”

“Simply dip your finger into a verified beverage and within seconds the presence of prevalent date rape drugs will be identified in colour change.”

On the one hand this definitely seems like a great step forward. Not only will it give women freedom to drink and partywithout having to constantly worry about not taking our eyes off our drinks, but it will enable you to call situations out as and when they happen.

That said, it is kinda depressing that it's come to a stage where women (and men) have to take a measure like this when they're out enjoying themselves. Perhaps as well as things like this, we need to be taking more time to address why so many people think it's acceptable toputa drug into an unsuspecting person's drink to do god knows what to them without their consent.

It's also worth notingthat this polish will not detect all date rape drugs and someare concerned this could lead to people feeling a sense of false security when out drinking.

But what do you think - reckon this is a step in the right direction or what? Comments to us over @MTVUK way please.