HoMedics iCush Seat Cover - Review
I’m Robbie with Category5 Technology TV and if you’re wondering what these things are sticking out on my shoulders tonight. Well, I’m sitting on an iCush from Homedics. It’s a pretty cool device. It’s a seat cover but it’s much more than that. Not only does it give you the back massage with eight massaging motors but also it’s audio synchronized. So, you plug it into your MP3 player, your PC, your Mac or any device basically that has an output or it has got adaptors for pretty much everything, RCA or a 3.5 mm headphone jack. You’ll be able to plug this puppy in.
And the audio synchronization option allows you to actually synchronize the beat of your music, the beat of your games, the sound effects, all that stuff with the massaging motors. You can actually kind of get it on the game not quite force feedback effects mind you but certainly it brings a new level to your movies, brings a new level to your music and of course, your video games.
So I was just fire this puppy up. It’s got a cool little remote control that’s got all the features that you want and however it is corded. It would be nice to see a little less cords on this thing because we’ve got so many wires and I don’t know about you but I spend around at my desk quite a bit and sometimes when wheeling around and the wires just kind of get in the way. So it’s kind of one of the downfalls but of course the device does feel really good. I had hard day yesterday and this feels nice.
Let’s take a quick look at the sound system that is built-in to the iCush. It has a built-in amplifier and of course this got this little volume adjuster knob so you can turn this up just like you would expect. That will go too terribly loud and it has a little bit of a teeny sound to it but if you’re using this to accent your existing audio systems to your computer setting this up as the rear channels of the 5.1 surround sound system you’re going to greatly enhance the sound of your movies and your games.
And then of course we have the audio sync feature. Now if I push this button right here, now I’m in audio sync mode. So as soon as I bring up the volume, you see I can feel that already. So now I get a vibration on every peak drum and it feels pretty cool, definitely awesome for playing video games and things like that.
The HoMedics iCush has eight massaging motors. That’s two on your thighs, two on your lower back, two on your mid-back and two on your upper back. You can just set which ones you want to have on, if you want to use these buttons on the remote. You can just focus on the specific area of your back if you’ve got some pain after a long day at work. Or you can use the programming feature or the programmed features. They have three programs already pre-programmed into the system and P1 allows us to just have all eight motors running all at once. You can change the intensity with this one.
Let’s just see how intense this goes can you hear the changes in my voice? Oh, that goes nice. Pretty good! Moving on to P2, it’s going to move up and down the iCush so it starts at the top works its way down to the bottom and it works its way back up again where P3 randomizes the entire procedure. So, you’re just getting the massage all over the place and it feels real. That’s my favorite program.
A downfall of the HoMedics iCush as you can hear is that it is quite loud, so if you’re working in a quiet office, if you’re a librarian, there’s no way that you could put this at your desk. However, here at home it’s quite nice. I can just come home after a long day of work. Sit back in my chair and it doesn’t bother anybody. And of course, when I’m playing my games, I can turn on the audio sync.
If you like to play a video game or watch a movie in privacy without bothering other people but still with the ability to use the audio sync features of the HoMedics iCush. You can always use the built-in headphone jack which is on one of these cables. You plug in your headphones, turn on the audio sync and you’re still be able to feel your music, feel your game, feel your movie but you won’t be bothering other people. The iCush from the HoMedics has got six out of ten from Category5. It would have been really nice to see if they have all the couple all the wires together. Maybe they had the one wire coming out of the iCush rather than three. Put that aside, it makes a really nice welcome addition to my desk. I’m going to have it on my chair for a long time to come. Definitely, nice to come home to and I’m going to be the envy of game night.
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