Slide Two: Conceptual Design Options

Some of the different initial design ideas we had applied to a variety of different products, and although we had many more ideas, these are some cool ones.

Liquid Analgesic Dispenser:

• Syringe-like dispenser: Liquid would be pushed out of one end of a syringe-type tube in precise quantities for the patient to collect and ingest. Pros: Precise and adjustable. Cons: Heavy, and restricted to a single analgesic.

• Soap dispenser type pump: Patient would manually depress pump head. Pros: Cheap and easy to use. Cons: Heavy and Imprecise.Strip Tablet Dispenser:

Sheet Dispenser:

• It would dispense analgesic strips similar to Listerine strips. Would function like a modified paper towel dispenser, where every time a button is pushed, one sheet is dispensed. Pros: Dose size adjustable. Cons: Too complex, requires analgesic strips similar to Listerine strips.

Solid Pill Dispenser

• Rotating Dispenser: A wheel with prepackaged strips of pills in blisters would dispense them by rotating and cutting at a pre-perforated line. Pros: Ease of use Cons: Large and hard to design.

• Stack Dispenser: Would be composed of several individual tubes, each with a stack of pills or pill containers. The bottom item of the stack would be dispensed laterally, and the rest of the stack would move down. Pros: simplicity, dose-holding capacity, affordability, variety of analgesics. Cons: limited adjustability of dose size.