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The whole category is basically the same trick with nicer plastic. I’ve had one of those red syringe style ones in a drawer for years, never needed it, and it’s still there. The ResQVac looks more put together with the handle and two masks, but the mechanism is still you pulling a plunger and hoping whatever is stuck comes up. Nothing about that changes because the handle is ergonomic. If you already have the old one and it isn’t cracked, I don’t see the point in buying the new looking version just to have a nicer thing sitting in the same drawer. That said, my old one is bulky enough that I never carry it anywhere, so if the ResQVac is actually small enough to keep in a bag, that’s the only real argument I can see for it. Not a strong one though.
I just don’t bother with those ports anymore. Saw a guy at an airport yank his cable out and the whole port came with it, wall plate and all. If I’m desperate I’ll use a regular outlet, otherwise the phone can wait.
Fair enough, but topping it up overnight only covers you if the battery makes it through the day in the first place. If it dies at hour five, no amount of home charging fixes that. I’d sort the battery question before worrying about car chargers.
Battery is one thing, but the magnetic charger is what would annoy me on a trip. One bump in the car and the collar’s dead before you even hit the trail. How are you planning to charge it between hikes?
Sensitivity slider is about the extent of it, and it’s not exactly a precision instrument. Mine went off for a plastic bag once, so I just set it to low and accepted the false alarms as the price of having it at all.
I tried something like that with a different fan, stuck it on a high shelf because my bedside table is cluttered with glasses and books and whatever else accumulates there. The air basically sailed over my face and hit the wall instead. I ended up climbing up to grab it in the middle of the night because I was too warm, which was about as graceful as it sounds. Height matters more than people think with these little fans. If you want the airflow to actually land on you, it needs to be roughly level with the bed, not looming above it. A shelf way up there might look tidy but it won’t cool you. I moved mine down to the floor near the head of the bed and it was noticeably better, even if it looked less neat.
I’m on a Pixel 7. And to be clear, I only tried the message-checking thing a couple times, so I don’t actually know if it holds up for a whole conversation or if I just got lucky. My original worry about being glued to the screen is still kind of there.
The soaking everything complaint is a bit overblown. Mine throws water past the car if I aim it wrong, sure, but that’s just how you hold it. Rinsing soap off is the one job it’s actually decent at, streaks haven’t been an issue for me.
Using the TV port is a gamble on the TV, not the stick. My old set cut power to USB whenever it went into standby, so anything plugged in would die mid-show. The newer one keeps it live fine. So it really depends on the model. If you want one less thing to think about, a cheap wall adapter is the safer bet. I’d rather not have the thing dropping just because the TV decided to save a watt.
Baselines didn’t help me at all. I tracked for a few months and it just made me stare at noise I would’ve ignored anyway. The low score panic doesn’t go away, it just gets a new chart to look at.
Look at whether the brand still sells bare tools that take the old packs, not just kits. I bought into a line years ago and the batteries are still around, but half the tools got quietly dropped. That mattered more than the battery shape.
Swapping the actual scent is the only part that ever worked for mine. I tried just moving hiding spots and she clocked the new layout in about three days, same as before. But when I started switching what I was hiding, she actually had to work for it again. Not fancy stuff either, just alternating between her regular kibble and a bit of tuna water dabbed on a dish. Different smell means she can’t just run the same mental map, she has to actually track it. Lasted way longer than moving rooms ever did. People keep saying their cat sees through it, and maybe some do, but mine didn’t, and it cost me nothing since it was already in the cabinet. If you’re going to rotate anything, rotate the smell, not the geography. The geography is the thing they memorize.
The speed thing depends on what you mean by quick touch-up. If I’ve got one or two obvious hairs poking out and I’m already running late, I’m still grabbing the scissors. That’s a five second job and I can see exactly what I’m doing. The trimmer is faster when there’s a bunch of stuff going on and I’d otherwise be chasing hairs around with the scissors for a couple minutes.
Once a week is nothing to worry about. Mine gets used way less consistently than that and it still does its thing. It’s not like these things need some kind of daily routine to function. I’ve gone a few weeks without touching it and it came back fine.
The part I’d actually pay attention to is whether you like the whole poke it in and let it spin approach. Some people find that weird and go back to scissors. Nothing wrong with either one, but if you’re happy with scissors for stray hairs, the trimmer isn’t magically better for that specific situation.
I’d skip it. The whole point of that thing is bouncing between countries, so paying for that when you’re parked in one spot is just burning money. My phone already handles the occasional outage fine.
The sleep score stuff is the main thing I ignore. Mine gives me a number every morning and I have zero idea what it’s based on. Some nights I sleep like garbage and get a 78, other nights I feel fine and get a 65. So what am I supposed to do with that? Nothing. It’s just a random number with a nice graphic attached.
The one piece of data that actually changed something for me was resting heart rate. Not because the device told me to do anything, but because I noticed it creeping up over a few weeks when I was stressed at work and not sleeping. That was useful. It gave me a nudge to back off a bit. But that’s one metric out of like fifteen. The rest is decoration.
So for me it’s less about upgrading and more about figuring out which one or two numbers you’d actually act on. If you can’t name them, more data isn’t going to help.
Unplugging it doesn’t wipe anything, the settings stay saved. Whether it’s worth doing is a different question. Unplugging and plugging back in constantly is just going to wear out the outlet or the cord over time.
Figures. Sounds like it depends on the unit and I’m not about to play crash test dummy with mine. I’ll just keep it on a flat surface and call it good.
Sharing the app side of it is the easy part. The tracker itself is where I’d poke holes. I picked one up for my lab a few months back and the location updates were fine when he was out in the open, but the second he got near the treeline behind our place it started drifting. Nothing dramatic, just enough that I stopped trusting it for anything beyond a rough idea. The fence alerts also came through late a couple times, so if your husband is relying on it to catch a runner, that gap matters. Two phones won’t fix any of that. It’s not a terrible gadget for casual walks, but I wouldn’t lean on it like a leash substitute. Whether two logins work is kind of beside the point if the signal is already shaky where you actually walk.
I’ve used mine while it was plugged in a few times, mostly because I forgot to charge it before sitting down. Nothing dramatic happened. It still ran through the modes the same way, heat included. The only thing I noticed is the cable gets in the way if you’re trying to move around, so it kind of defeats the hands-free thing. If I’m staying put on the couch it’s fine. I wouldn’t plan my whole routine around keeping it plugged in, but for an occasional top-up session it does the job. The bigger question is whether the battery even lasts long enough that you’d need to. Mine gets through a couple of sessions before it wants a charge, so plugging in mid-use isn’t something I do often. If yours is dying fast enough that you’re regularly using it tethered, that’s more of a battery thing than a safety thing in my book.
Bag strap is fine if that’s what you actually grab without thinking. The whole point is muscle memory, not some perfect carry position. I’ve seen people fumble with both setups, so do whatever you practice.
I’d rather have a real manual than a foldout sheet, personally. Those little pictogram things are fine until one controller pairs and the other doesn’t, then you’re stuck guessing which button combo to hold. I’ve had enough of that with cheap gadgets. A proper booklet with actual words would be worth the extra paper. Not saying the thing is hard to set up, just that I don’t trust one-page instructions to cover anything that goes sideways later.
Used mine in a steamy bathroom for a couple weeks, no issues at all. It still kicks on fine and heats the same as day one. Bad idea if you’re leaving it there, but ten minutes won’t kill it.
Two to four weeks is the honest answer, and summer heat pushes it toward the short end of that. I’ve had a pouch in the back of a parked SUV turn basically scentless in about 10 days during a July stretch, while the same kind of pouch in a shaded garage still had something left after three weeks. Same product, different oven. Heat just cooks the oils off faster, it’s not complicated.
So if your RV is baking in a storage lot, I’d swap closer to every two weeks than every month. Not because mice suddenly swarm the second the smell fades, but because you’re basically guessing after that point. The pouch doesn’t announce when it’s done. I just write the date on mine and go by that instead of sniffing around like an idiot.
I don’t buy the whole “just keep it in the drawer” thing. If I’m going to spend money on something for a choking emergency, I want it where I can actually grab it in two seconds, not buried behind takeout menus. That said, mine lives on the counter now and it’s still awkward to imagine using it on myself.
More passes won’t wreck the chain. The angle guide keeps it consistent, so touching up often is actually easier on the teeth than waiting until they’re really dull. I do a couple swipes whenever it feels slow, no drama.