The Wasabi Fire Alarm Won’t Wake Your Neighbors

Every year, an organization called Improbable Research offers up the Ig Nobel Prize , a Nobel spoof award that it is given for science innovations “that first make people laugh, then make them think.” This year, our favorite entry came from researchers at the Shiga University of Medical Science, who developed something called the wasabi alarm, a fire (or general emergency alarm) that slashes noise pollution but might make anyone nearby feel sick.

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The Wasabi Fire Alarm Won’t Wake Your Neighbors