The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7461 p62
21 July 2007

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Aberdeen student invents handy dose reminder alarm

Patients could be given an egg-shaped device to remind them when to take their medicines, if a prototype designed by a Robert Gordon University student comes to fruition.

Sean McFleat, a design student at the university’s Gray’s school of art in Aberdeen, said that his device, which he calls 2Rememdium, will remind people what medicine to take, when to take it and at what dose.

The necessary information would be downloaded to the device from dispensary computers. It would then beep or vibrate — potential users can decide which — and display the reminder on a small LCD display.

Mr McFleat has a design prototype, but the necessary software does not yet exist.

He expects that his device can be manufactured for around £9.