It started as a competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston last year. Students and alumni were called upon to come up with ideas to more effectively combat tuberculosis in developing countries.

What they came up with is a high-tech solution in a simple, inexpensive and easy-to-use package: a "smart" pillbox that dispenses pills, alerts the patient that it's time to take the medication, records the time the pill was taken and prevents double-dosing.

The winning team is now about to test its invention in the real world. Madeleine Amberger has this report.