A Pill Bottle that Won’t Take “No” for an Answer
When it is time for a dose of medicine, the GlowCap emits a pulsing orange light; after an hour, the gadget starts beeping every five minutes, in arpeggios that become more complicated and insistent. After that, the device can set off an automated telephone or text message reminder… It also can generate email or letters reporting to a family member or doctor how often the medication is taken.
Full article on the high-tech pill bottle designed to improve pill-taking.
This is worse than a nanny helth care system. You can’t even yell back at it.
I’m not sure I’m ready for a pill bottle that nags me using information technology? I feel sorry for some of those seniors that are taking two dozen different medicines – spread throughout the day. Their medicine cabinet must sound like a box of smoke alarms continually going off all day long.
On the other hand, as I get older and more forgetful, this type of system may not be all that bad.
A contraceptive container that warns the significant other?
The best way to fix medicare and social security is to place the robber barons(the Congress of the US) under those programs instead of the cadillac programs that they now have for medical and retirement then see how fast they get envolved and fix them. The professional politians that are now ruining this country should be turned out of office