North Carolina State University Students are working on a new nail polish line called "Undercover Colours" that promises to detect date rape drugs such as GHB, Rohypnol and Xanax.

The special nail polish changes colors when it come in contact with drinks spiked with these date rape drugs.

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Ankesh Madan, Stephen Gray, Tyler Confrey-Maloney and Tasso Von Windheim are the four male undergraduates who came up with the innovative date rape alert. All four know women who have been victims of sexual assault.

The students, who won US$11,250 for their invention from a contest held by North Carolina State's Entrepreneurship Initiative, refer to the line as the "first fashion company working to prevent sexual assault."

"​Through this nail polish and similar technologies, we hope to make potential perpetrators afraid to spike a woman's drink because there's now a risk that they can get caught," the team shared.

Although the nail polish isn't ready to be produced in mass quantities quite yet, its creators believe its market availability in the near future is inevitable.

The group has already been promised seed funding for the product and so far, 4,000 users have liked their line on Facebook.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that around 1 in every 5 women will experience rape in their lifetime. One-third of women who are raped are assaulted in their late teens to early twenties when most of them are in college.

In the United States, rape and other forms of sexual assault occur every two minutes.

Date rape drugs are often used by felons to aid them in the sexual assaults. These drugs are oftentimes odorless and tasteless, so women are unaware of them.

The medications cause weakness and loss of consciousness. In many instances, women have no recollection of the rape.