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This 4-in-1 Dispenser Ends the Sticky Sauce Bottle Chaos

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There is a particular kind of table chaos that happens at a backyard barbecue or a casual dinner. Four or five sauce bottles crowd around the food, each one sticky at the cap, half of them tipped on their side. It is a small problem but a persistent one, and it is the exact friction that the Drippl is designed to remove. The device consolidates four condiments into a single, upright dispenser.

The Drippl stands 20cm tall and 7cm wide, sized to sit comfortably in one hand. Its four wedge-shaped compartments each hold 150ml of sauce for a combined capacity of 600ml. The form is composed: a white base with frosted, semi-transparent chambers that let you see the sauce inside without fully exposing it, keeping the table looking calm rather than congested with mismatched packaging.

Designer: Drippl

The interaction is straightforward. Rotate the selector dial at the base to the sauce you want, feel a tactile click when it locks in, and squeeze. Only the selected chamber opens; the remaining three stay fully sealed. Turn to the fully closed position, and all outlets are blocked, which matters when the unit is in a bag on the way to a picnic or packed into a cooler for an outdoor cookout.

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The valve system treats sauce viscosity as a variable worth solving for, rather than applying a single nozzle to everything. A large valve handles creamy, thick sauces like mayo; a medium valve suits ketchup and mustard; a small valve controls thinner pours like soy sauce or hot sauce. The valves are interchangeable, so the configuration adapts to whatever combination you fill it with on a given day.

Cleanup is just as stress-free thanks to a fully detachable design. Every compartment, spout, and the selector base separates for hand washing or the dishwasher. The materials are food-grade and BPA-free, with compartments designed to resist staining and odor absorption. The unit also handles sauces up to 70°C (158°F), covering warm applications like heated barbecue sauce, though anything beyond that temperature falls outside its range.

What the Drippl addresses, beyond pure consolidation, is the presentation problem that standard sauce bottles ignore entirely. Most condiment packaging is designed for storage and retail shelf presence, not for the experience of using it at a table. The frosted compartments and white base give it the visual grammar of a considered object, rather than a row of utilitarian squeeze bottles.

That said, the design raises practical questions worth sitting with. At roughly 800 to 850g when fully filled, it is not a lightweight carry. Consolidating four sauces works smoothly when your preferences stay consistent, but swapping out one sauce mid-rotation requires cleaning that compartment first, reintroducing some of the same friction the product is trying to eliminate.

The Drippl is currently in prelaunch, so there are no answers yet on how the sealed valve system holds up across repeated use with thicker sauces, or whether the tactile selector stays reliable after months of daily rotation. Those are fair questions for any mechanism-dependent kitchen product. The concept is well-reasoned, but durability at the valve level will ultimately determine whether this stays on the table or gets retired to a shelf.

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Smart pill dispenser concept safeguards your medicine from kids

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Pill boxes and dispensers are becoming more common inside households, especially those with members that require daily medication for their health. The simplest designs are just containers with compartments for different days, but there are also more sophisticated machines that try to automate that routine so that you won’t forget to take your pills. Unfortunately, neither of these solutions takes into account unauthorized or accidental access to those medicines, especially by children for whom those drugs could very well be fatal. This smart pill dispenser concept tries to bring all those concerns together, offering not only a convenient tool but also a safe one for users as well as the people around them.

Designer: Anthony Chupp

The tedious work of taking medication regularly actually starts at the moment you allocate them for each day. Pill boxes and dispensers make it easier to dispense those pills and capsules, but they don’t exactly make it easy to fill them up in the first place. You might drop a pill or two on the floor in the process or, worse, drop them in the wrong compartment, forcing you to lose time trying to double-check and correct that mistake. We’re still a few steps away from a completely automated process that segregates and distributes those pills without human intervention, so any aid toward this part of the process will be significant, even if it still involves manually dropping in pills.

That’s the kind of help that the Cadence concept design offers, using a pharmacy-grade pill sorting plate that makes it easier to put pills where they belong. The specially-designed tray only has an opening for a single day so you don’t accidentally drop medicine inside compartments that have already been filled up. You can also just pour your pills on the tray and then use the built-in spatula to move the exact kind and number toward the opening.

The smart pill dispenser has 30 slots arranged like spokes around a wheel. When it’s time to dispense the day’s dosage, it releases the pills down a dropper shaped to guide the pieces into a cup or glass for collection. And then it turns the wheel so that tomorrow’s pills will be ready for the next round. The button to dispense the pills for the day is located at the top, out of the reach of kids, while locks prevent those same children from accidentally getting into the dispenser itself and scattering its contents.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a smart pill dispenser if it didn’t have any hi-tech features. When connected to a mobile device, Cadence will be able to keep track of your intake, calculating how many doses you have left or how many you’ve missed in that month. The dispenser itself has a small digital clock in the corner to take note of the time, and an LED light strip around the box that gently catches your attention when it comes time to take your medicine. Cadence isn’t exactly a sophisticated smart device, but it’s this balance of digital and analog methods that actually makes the design concept even more effective.

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Smart device reminds you to take your meds when you have to

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When I was diagnosed with a certain condition a couple of years ago, it also comes with the tedious (and expensive) “habit” of drinking all kinds of medication. While in my head I know I have to drink these meds at certain times of the day, there are still a lot of times that I actually forget. Sure, we can always add reminders on our phones but sometimes we just snooze those reminders. Or that may just be me. But in reality, people still need all kinds of reminders to take their meds.

Designer: Rume Studio

Ownum Pod is a concept for a device that may be the first one with a smart reminder for medication. This isn’t just an app that can give you notifications when it’s time to take your meds. It’s actually a smart device where you can put your medicine bottle in it and then configure the app to give you reminders when to take it. There is a precision scale inside the device so it knows whether or not you took the correct dosage of your pills or tablets.

The pod itself looks like a smartphone or device charger with a space in the middle to put the medicine bottle. It probably has a standard bottle where you can just store your respective medicine in. And if you’re like me that takes several different meds, you can interconnect multiple pods with just one power cable / charging connection. It has a rubber base and is also modular so you can place double or multiple pods together.

The UI and function seems pretty simple based on the product renders, although there wasn’t much explanation or visuals of the connected app. I don’t know if something like this can help discipline someone like me into taking their meds regularly. But having an option like this may be helpful.

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