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DUBLIN, Ohio - Medical supplier Cardinal Health Inc. will begin marketing pill bottles equipped with recorded messages that give patients dosage instructions, the company said.
For some reason I flashed to the singing tableware doing "Be Our Guest" in Beauty and the Beast.
I hope it's button activated. I'd hate to have to listen to a message every time I opened an aspirin bottle. "So, you've got a headache, huh?"
Image Viagra bottles playing
"I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More, Baby".A friend of mine had a car with voice reminders such as
"you are low on fuel" or "remember to buckle up" etc.
You could choose a man's voice or a woman's voice. He chose the woman's voice.
Once, when I was riding with him we got in the car and it started this litany of reminders; check your setabelt, you're low on fuel, it's almost time for an oil change, your headlights are on...
He turns to me and like a henpecked husband says:
"This bitch is running my life."
My friend had one of those, except the car was like twelve years old and at some point it developed a short. At least once a day it would randomly declare "Key is in the ignition" while we were driving.
My friend had one of those, except the car was like twelve years old and at some point it developed a short. At least once a day it would randomly declare "Key is in the ignition" while we were driving.
Adds a touch of surreality.
I really, really hope they don't put antipsychotics in these bottles.
"So...ya feelin' a bit crazy tonight?"
There was a PSA (maybe done by the Ad Council?) that was on TV back in probably the late 1970s. It was encouraging people to follow their doctors' instructions in taking their medicine. It said that medicine bottles can't remind you when it's time to take your medication (and showed a picture of a medicine bottle with a flashing siren mounted on top). Or keep you from taking too much (person's hand with 3 pills in it... a set of pincers reaches out from within the medicine bottle to take one pill back). Although I don't recall if it specifically said "medicine bottles can't talk . . . "
(The video is probably on the Internet somewhere, but a quick google failed ot turn it up.)