Kimbell's team developed a sophisticated and authentic project in which students were required to develop, as far as a prototype, an object such as a children's pill dispenser in two three-hour supervised sessions.

Automated pill dispensers can dispense only the pills that are to be taken at that time and are locked; versions are available for Alzheimer's patients that have a lock on them (Cheek 2005).

A counter on the pill dispenser clicked down.

I made it a dress rehearsal-water in the drinking tank, pill dispensers loaded, first-aid kit inside, vacuum-proof duplicate (I hoped it was vacuum-proof) in an outside pocket.

There are now a large range of telecare services available with some of the most well known being the pendant alarm, pill dispenser, telephone prompt service, the movement monitoring and more.

At our site, there was a plant doctor - a pill dispenser really, who gave pills for such things.

A pill dispenser, broken, but in a pocket still airtight.

Cardinal to Buy Pyxis Cardinal Health, a drug wholesaler, agreed to buy Pyxis, which makes automated pill dispensers for hospitals, for stock valued at $867 million.

The big-name herbal pill dispensers now entering the market say they are sticking to more "mainstream" substances and argue that those formulas are safe and effective when taken by healthy people in recommended doses.

Cardinal Health Inc., a big drug wholesaler, said yesterday that it had agreed to acquire the Pyxis Corporation, which makes automated pill dispensers for hospitals.