depressing the actuator button 78 but allow the terminals 84 86 to make electrical contact with the charger referring to fig7 another medication reminder 92 based on a slightly different principle of operation the reminder 92 includes a circuit 94 having in circuit a receptacle 96 for receiving a battery 98 a chip or assembly 100 mounted on a circuit board and providing a receiver 102 including an antenna 104 one or more alarms 106 108 and an on off switch 110 which is normally off the circuit board is located inside a support 12 and the switch 110 provides an actuator button 112 exposed through the inside analogous to the actuator button 78 the chip or assembly 100 acts to receive a signal from remote site and in response thereto energize one or more of the alarms 106 108 the concept is that the medication user contracts with a vendor who sends a signal at appropriate times which is received by the antenna 102 the signal may be of any suitable type such as a conventional radio frequency signal or a pager signal where the receiver 102 is a pager receiver in this manner signals may be sent and received at any desired interval the medication reminder 92 also includes a vibrator motor 114 in circuit with the assembly 100 to provide a tactile alarm it will accordingly be seen that there is provided an improved medication reminder device which.