glow pills

At the crossroads of Ambient and Persuasive interfaces, Glowcaps is a new product from ex-CEO of Ambient Devices David Roses’s new startup, Vitality. In this video he shows how the system is installed: it consists of pill bottle caps that glow red to remind you to take what’s inside, and blue when you’ve complied. These are partnered wirelessly to a color-changing night light, and the whole system works through a modem that communicates between the pill bottles and night lights and a service provider. These interfaces could be bought by people who seek to better care for themselves, and at the same time they could ease the guilt felt by friends and loved ones that forget to stop by every so often.