A bread-shaped pill box pops up from this toaster to playfully remind you to take care of yourself! - Yanko Design

1 of the little joys of life is a perfectly browned toast and you know that you will get a perfect one each fourth dimension the 3 infinitesimal timer is upward! Charles Strite invented the automatic toaster that saved so many slices from being burned to a crisp because information technology is the most human thing to forget – and nosotros forget things all the time, right from drinking enough water to getting upward from our desks. However, taking care of ourselves and having medicines on time is something nosotros tin can't forget and then a team of designers came upwards with a unproblematic even so genius idea of combining reminders to take our pills with a playful toaster.

This 2022 European Product Design (Design for Club/Design for Elders category) award-winning production is a pillbox that stores a week's worth of medication divided into days and pops up when it is fourth dimension to take your daily dose. The traditional pillboxes can make you feel cocky-conscious but if you have ane shaped like bread, everyone effectually y'all is going to 'loaf' it and desire one too – bread has the power to make everyone happy! This toaster works for everyone but was specially fabricated keeping the elderly demographic in mind as they tend to be more forgetful. This playful pillbox and reminder device bring some familiar relief while helping people to take their medication on fourth dimension. Keep in mind that the older generation may non be most comfortable with using smartphones to set up reminders or may not recognize the difference between alarms/reminder tones but the toaster helps because they don't accept to learn how to operate something new. Also, if y'all miss a reminder on your phone it won't ring again but the bread piece pillbox volition remain popped up which is a second visual reminder to take your medication if you miss hearing it.

You have three slices of "breadstuff" that comprise a week'southward worth of medication and popular up at regular times each solar day along with flashing lights and vibrations. The toaster's form also appeals to the emotional needs of users and reduces the depression acquired by long-term medication through its bright colors and familiarity. The Toaster Medicine Box was a 2020 European Product Design Award winner in the Design for Society/Design for Elders category.

Designers: Ding Xiong, Liu Shan, Yang Yunyi of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and Xu Mengzhen of Fuxi Laboratory of China Resources Sanjiu Medical & Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.