When his luggage was searched, security staff found one mobile phone taped to a medicine bottle, three other mobile phones taped together and several watches, also taped together.

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The company says anything from a GPS device to a medicine bottle can be linked in to the system, which could have implications in fields ranging from fitness to independent living.

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In the suddenly opened case I saw six rows of identical dark-brown glass bottles, each a bit smaller than a bottle of cough medicine.

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Plastic bottle from the bar well splashed into a plastic shot glass that resembled the little cup the comes with a bottle of cough medicine.

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Mitch Rothholz, a spokesman for the American Pharmacists Association, said pharmacy errors aren't common, but that there are things patients can do to make sure the medicine inside a bottle is the right drug.

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The final coup: Target puts color-coded rings between bottle and cap, so that different people in a household can quickly tell which medicine is theirs.

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