Customer Reviews

HoMedics iCush-100 Immersive Audio Sync Massage Seat

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The only complaint I have about this is that I wish I didn't have to deal with the cord getting caught in the wheels of the office chair I sit in when playing my X-Box. Otherwise it is excellent. Really enhances the gaming experience anywhere where the vibrating controller is a plus. I highly reccommend for sports, war and driving games. Puts you in the middle of the action. I am not a big I-pod user so I have only tried it with my wifes a couple of times. It works and I think would be pretty cool for just sitting in the chair and zoning out to music but the fact that you normally use your I-pod on the go makes me think the gaming link is the biggest reason to buy.

I tried this in a store once and was really unimpressed. Vibration is not my idea of massage. The speakers were poor in my opinion. Some people may find the game vibrating feature to be cool, but if you're looking for a massager, look into one of HoMedics other massager cushions with motorized balls such as the SMB-200, SMB-300, or QRM-400. They're more expensive, but they're easily worth the difference if you want something to relax you. And for audio, get some good ear buds, headphones, or a real audio system that can really immerse you in sound.

I bought this for my boyfriend, a major gamer, for his birthday. He was totally excited to open it and can't stop thanking me for it. He's only had it for a few days, but he has used it quite a bit.

My first concern was the speaker quality. He says the speakers work really well and was surprised about that since they arn't very big speakers. You can move the speakers around, they go up and down as well as twist a litle to face inward or outward.

The audio sync also works better than I expected. It's not that exciting if you're just watching a show on television, but it's great with video games (We played Lego Star Wars and it vibrated and massaged to the theme song), and I'm sure it would be fun with action movies or games like Halo. It also works well with different types of music. A great way to unwind from a long day would be to sit in it and listen to some Classical music.

Not only does it have the audio sync, but you can also use it as a normal massage chair and it's got 3 speeds, 3 levels of strength, and 3 modes (which sections vibrate at once). The wiring is easy to figure out- even I was able to get it hooked up to test it pretty quickly. You can also control the volume through a little dial on the cord. It even has a little pocket attached to put the remote in while you are using it.

As for downsides. I can't think of any. I think the only issue is that the cord might be too short depending on where you want to use it. It's fine for using in front of the television, but if I wanted to hook it up to the radio, and use it while I was on the computer on the other side of the room, it wouldn't reach. I'm sure you can buy an extension for it if needed.

Overall, I think it's a great product and a wonderful buy. I finally found something to get him that he doesn't already have. Ladies, if your man loves video games but you're not sure which game to buy him or you want to get him something other than a game, this is it! I'm pretty tight about spending money on things like this, but this was worth every penny.

I bought this product as a gift from my 14 year old daughter-- she saw it somewhere and asked for it. She loves the fact that the massage areas can be synchronized to whatever music she's listening to on her iPod (or from iTunes). The product appears to be fairly well made, and is fun to use.

This product has some wonderful features and they work really well. It is great to be able to listen to music and have a nice massage at; the same time.

This chair is more of a vibrating chiar attachment than a massage attachment I like it more for games and music (thats why i bought it). I leave the vibration function on for like 5 minutes because it numbs my back and then gets annoying if your looking for a cheap game chair buy this it works great as a surround sound system since the speakers are behind you. But if your looking for a massage chair pony up a few more dollars and get something better than this

I had experienced a similar product overseas (though the vibration was built into a recliner), and was hoping this would be up to that standard. When I had used that product, I found myself transported. Anyone who has played in a band, or I guess been really close to the stage, has felt the bass shoot through them. The chair i tried before reproduced this feeling, in addition to being really comfortable and relaxing. The HoMedics seat cover is comfortable but there were 2 serious problems, one unique to this individual product and one major one:

1) one of the speakers was blown, so it produced a hissing which was annoying. this leads me to question overall quality control.

2)much more important, it was very difficult to distinguish what the chair was vibrating in response to. For example, listening to music that starts quiet before the band comes in, the chair would not vibrate at all. Then, when the music was loud, there would be pulsing, but there seemed to be hardly any correspondence to the beat of the song. Solo piano recordings (Keith Jarrett) revealed a constant humming of the vibrating chair, again, no distinguishable beat, with the added annoyance that the music was somwhat drowned out by the humming of the chair.

overall, the seat cover is comfortable and the low-volume sound is good without the vibration. But the reason I bought the product was the sync between vibration and sound, and this was a completely useless. I am returning it because of the blown speaker, but won't be requesting replacement.

I had been looking for a good massager and came across this one. I was really excited because of the audio sync thinking I could use it along with my gaming laptop, X360, and high end headphones(Sennheiser pc350). So I just got it and I have to tell you it is CRAP. It is WORTHLESS. Its a JOKE and a NOVELTY.

Why you ask? Let me explain.

1. Massager is crap.

It does NOT massage. It just vibrates. When I say vibrates, it JUST shakes and its not a very good vibration. There is no way anyone spending $90 can expect this item to actually relive or massage muscles. It just shakes, its almost like I'm on one of those .25 cent rides in front of large department stores like Kmart or Walmart. There is no back or muscle relief here.

2. Audio sync

Are you kidding me? This thing just vibrates nonstop. There is no sync, no matching with sounds, no nothing. I firmly believe that if anyone says the audio sync is good with gaming they are lying and you are reading a fake review. (Check their review history, if you only see this one review on this product and they gave it 5 stars its fake!) There is NO sync, NO game like vibration, and NO rumble like experience. I was thinking that at least it would vibrate to all of the action in the games I play, since the massaging part sucks, but it literally just kept vibrating nonstop with NOTHING going on in the game.

I tried it with the following games.

Battlefield Heroes: Nonstop vibration and no sync.(Keep in mind, I mean its just vibrating with no sound playing in the game. When sound does occur its simply just goes faster but not remotely in sync or giving any sort of realism to the game. Don't expect the same feeling from the old playstation rumble pack controllers)

Warhammer 40000 Dawn of War II - Retribution: Nonstop vibration and no sync.

Total War Shogun 2: Nonstop vibration and no sync. At first I thought it would work slightly better because the marching was somewhat in sync but after the fourth step, continuous vibrations

I was going to try APB Reloaded and some other titles but there is no point. Its just a bad product.


In summary, I can not recommend this product. I buy a lot of stuff online and this one really upset me. I literally put it right back in the mail to be sent back to Amazon. No surprise Homedics doesn't even sell this model directly or support it.

Do NOT waste your money or time on this. Find a better model or you will be extremely disappointed.

I got this chair for my brothers for christmas since they play football games and halo. They love it. Especially when they get to feel the action in the game.

I like it a lot, i just sit there and plug my mp3 and relax. The only annoying thing is that it automatically power off after 15 minutes, so you need to press the start button.