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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
let's talk about sleep so what I'm
looking at here is I'm looking at the
electro fan and honestly it just sounds
like a superhero name so I liked it
before I even got the product but this
is from a company called sound of sleep
and we already Ed their sound machines
and they're really really good so when
they came out with a new one that was
specifically just a white noise
generator I was kind of intrigued now
there are a lot of situations where
White Noise can be beneficial one of
which is in a really dense office
environment cuz it just gives you some
privacy the vast majority of therapists
for example have one of these outside
their door so if you're sitting in the
waiting room you're not saying hm what
are they talking about but more
importantly it's great for sleep and for
me and for my family that was really why
we got it so I actually tried it on the
road here's a picture of it in a hotel
room and we actually just drove up to
Montana from Denver so it was like a TW
2,200 M roundtrip stayed in a lot of
hotel rooms it was a great trip and
there were some hotel rooms where it was
really really quiet and so having this
little guy was great and actually it's
on this whole time
listen now suddenly all that background
noise has gone away and here's the thing
that we found is when we turn it on it
would almost immediately just go into
the background and it would just be the
background level of noise and we
wouldn't really be thinking about it but
when it came time to go to sleep instead
of being in those quiet rooms where
you're listening for that faint little
sound you just had this background noise
now this is particularly interesting cuz
the electro fan this is the big one um
it's not very big but it's the larger of
the two units they have it has 10 White
Noise sounds and 10 fan sounds hence the
name elran so let's switch
so that's a fan sound now to be fair
some of these I listen to and I'm like
uh I don't really want to like be
sleeping in the middle of some
industrial environment but you can
actually switch
sounds so there's lots of variations and
they're nonrepeating
cyclic sort of sound systems so you can
leave it on and you're not going to hear
like a 30 second tape and then it stops
and goes back in 30 seconds it's
actually I think there's just some
software in there generating all the
waveforms so it's just a nice even sound
and this is the fan sounds let's just go
over to White
Noise and you can see here in the front
here's a closeup the controls are super
easy to work with I mean it really
couldn't be any easier and so this is
different white noise
and basically it's just different it'll
it'll change the
pitch and here's what's really cool this
thing gets crazy
loud so you probably can't hear me I
certainly can't hear myself so I'm going
to turn it off
again so one of the things the company
says is it actually is like 10% or 10 DB
louder than any of its competitors
something like that
it's gets it really loud if you're in an
environment where you really need to
have background noise to give yourself
privacy or to give other people privacy
this is a real nice unit now let's just
talk real quick about it so we got the
10 um fan sounds and the 10 White Noise
sounds it has a sleep timer so you can
actually set different timers if you
want it to just go on for 30 minutes and
then turn off you can do that and
obviously volume up down and it has a
kind of interesting design choice
because it has a USB plug so on the
other end of this wire that I have
plugged in is just a USB plug and a USB
adapter so you plug it into your
computer plug it into any USB charger
but then this end of it is actually a
sort of specific little plug it's not
actually like a micro USB and I asked
the company about that and they said it
was because they needed that 90° angle
to get it to plug
in let's turn that off again
um and that's legit I mean that's that's
their design decision it's something you
should know but it's great because if
you have the right wire then you really
have a very small compact unit that you
can plug into anything you can plug this
into your laptop if you needed to when
you're on the road and so this
particular one that I got also comes
with a handy travel case which doubles
as I don't know maybe as a Play-Doh mold
now not just kidding don't use it as a
Play-Doh mold
um and here's the really great thing is
they're really quite reasonably priced
so this unit by itself is $49.95 comes
in a couple of different colors they
also have a smaller version of it which
comes in pastel colors and that one only
has six fan sounds and six White Noise
sounds but it's perfect for the nursery
so if you have a baby then a lot of
times having some background noise in
the baby's room can really help them
sleep and sleep deeply which any parent
that's watching this knows is an
absolute blessing so here's the funny
thing is the electr fan junor which
comes in the pastel colors is the same
price it's
$49.95 and then if you want to get this
plus the travel case then the whole deal
runs
$69.99 still not too bad at all and as I
said from our field tests it's super
great I mean this will always be in my
suitcase from now on when I travel
either by myself or certainly with my
children because man you know they can
be so alert to noise that I can turn the
page in a book and there's like huh what
are you so you still awake so this gets
rid of all of that super useful so this
is the electro fan and the pastel ones
the electropan Jr you can learn a lot
more at elran
docomo where they got tons of great
reviews anyway this is Dave Taylor and
all this talk of sleep has made me want
to have a nap
so I'll catch you in my next video
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