A company called MedivoxRx is selling a pill bottle dubbed "Rex" that allows consumers, doctors, or pharmacists to verbally record pertinent medication information that can be played back by pushing a button on the pill bottle.
A starter kit is $55 and contains three bottles and a recording station with microphone. According to the company website the product is targeted for people who are elderly, visually and cognitively impaired, illiterate, or speak a different language.
I take six medications and all but one are round tablets in varying shades of off-white. I'm a little paranoid about taking the wrong meds at the wrong time so I've never screwed it up yet. But I have stumbled out of bed in the morning, bleary-eyed and uncaffeinated, and grabbed a handful of pills, put them in my mouth and then spit them out to double-check that I got the right ones. Ick. An audio identification is a great idea for distinguishing between all those orange bottles with itty-bitty print.
[via Gizmodo]
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