Customer Reviews

Eviltron

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I bought a couple of these to try it out,but thinking they wouldn't work as well as advertised. Well, they work, and they are great. I had one co-worker tear apart his office (I helped him out) and reach a point that he started to scream out "I hear you @**hole..." every 5 minutes or so (i also told a couple people nearby to say that they didn't hear a thing if he asked). Now we have on in the men's room, and one in a conference room making people jump and question their sanity.

If your boss has a good sense of humor, I'd use it on him! Otherwise, it may drive him to the funny farm... and you somewhere other than where you are employed currently.

I stuck mine behind a radiator (that was off) and set it to: "Hey, Can You Hear Me?" in a whisper voice. Well, I naturally don't have good hearing so, everytime he asked me about it, I replied with a straight face, "Hear What?" to which he said, "That Voice! I hear, Hey, Can you hear me?"

After accusing everyone in the room... outside the room... and people who he knew weren't fond of him, he started to pick up the phone to see if they were on there... He tried answering the voice, maybe they were stuck in the wall?... he then came to the conclusion that it was a remote control device that someone was setting off. He scoured the room for the sounding box but could not find it.

Well, after a couple of days, I broke my straight face and showed it to him and he found it to be mildly amusing.

Word of this got around to everyone and we all had a good laugh.

Not recomended for employees/boss's with no sesne of humor, people who get irritated and then become irate very easily. People with medical conditions, hear voices already, or believing in ghosts or are paranoid by nature, wouldn't be good victims as when they find out the joker was you, it may not end well for the joker... that'd be you, unless you can blame it on a compulsive agree-er. :)

Being a gadget guy I bought this to use on my unsuspecting spouse but she was home when it was delivered. So I planted it in a office at work. I set it to "Hey, can you hear me?" The result exceeded all expectations. The victim was positive something supernatural was communicating with him. Actually ran down the hall freaking out. It motivated him to clean his office and gather coworkers to assure him others could hear it. Before the eviltron was found out Tec. Support guy suggested he go to church more often. It took him 2 days to find it. I told him he now has to prank someone else with it. My only regret is I did not catch him on video.

I really want the next generation to enable recording of custom sounds. I would use:

"I said, can you hear me?"

"I saw what you did"

A copy of the victim's ring tone

"I can see you, go back to sleep"

The first day she didn't notice it. On day two she was tearing everything out of her drawers and cupboards, dragging people into her office to listen(who never hear it because it goes off randomly). She's convinced now that it also says her name (it doesn't). She has come up with several conspiracy theories including it's her computer, there's a walkie talkie in her office and someone is controlling it by cell phone. Of course being the IT person I was instantly blamed but I get blamed every time so it's hard to prove. Today I stood outside her office while she was on the phone and whispered "Tammy can you hear me" and she looked like she was going to come out of her skin. And her assistant about fell out of her chair laughing. I love the Eviltron. The entire office is trying to figure out where or what it is. Luck-fully the president of the company was seen by himself in her office yesterday so she'll be blaming him soon. I can't wait for Monday staff meeting. I'm sure she'll demand that someone fess up and we'll all get a great laugh.

Overall, I was let down by the selection of sounds on this device. I have had both of the annoy-a-trons, and was very pleased with those, but this one was underwhelming. It was quiet- there was no volume, so you couldn't get it loud enough to understand what you are hearing, and the sounds were weak. If I didn't get this item for free, I wouldn't have gotten it and would have thought of returning it. The only sound that was amusing was the little girl laughing- which I considered putting in the men's room, but then I didn't because that would have been a little too evil!

This is an evil device. I love it. The only mistakes you can make:

1. Getting caught putting it somewhere.

2. Telling someone about.

3. Costing your company money as 3 or more employees get involved in ripping apart the room looking for the darn thing.

I like screwing with people, so this was a blast. It really drives people crazy. I wish it had slightly more realistic sounds, some of them definitely sound like recordings.

UPDATE 12/13/11:

Holy Crap. So. I got another unit shipped from Amazon. I turned it on and it worked right away. I never left it on to hear the repeat function actually work before deployment though. More on that later.

My family went up to visit my Sister and her boyfriend before Christmas a few days ago. I brought along the Eviltron with me hoping to deploy this against my unsuspecting sibling and her boyfriend.

Upon arriving, I started scouting out deployment locations. Bathroom pipe? No. Behind the refrigerator? No. Under their bed attached to the bed frame? YES!

I activated the Eviltron, clicked through until I heard the "Hey, Can you hear me?" sound and stuck it under their bed. Then I waited. I could not hear it again! Granted, the sound volume is low, and there was a lot of kids running around screaming, but still I heard nothing. I re-deployed it maybe three times. Figuring maybe I'd gotten another defective unit, we left that night disappointed. I left it stuck to the bed frame right near the edge. I figured that next time we were over I'd try again with a new unit.

That night went by. No call.

The next day went by. No call.

Today? CALL

My sister calls me and tells me that they found my little gadget. She says, "Do you want to hear how it went down?" Of course!!!!

Here's a summary of what happened:

Shortly after we left, they hear a noise. Then they hear it again...and again.

They have no idea what it's saying. They're thinking something is haunted in their apartment. Then they hear it clearly say "Hey, Can you hear me?"

Thinking that one of my kids may have left a toy on their bed, they pull the sheets off (and find nothing.) They still hear the voice.

Then they look under the bed, nothing there.

They pull off the mattress. They're getting freaked out now.

They pull off the box spring. Nothing there. Her boyfriend thinks he hears the voice coming from the box spring.

HE CUTS OPEN THE BOX SPRING AND LOOKS AROUND WITH A FLASHLIGHT!!!!!. Nothing. More freaking out.

My sister picks up the bed frame and shakes it hard....yet Eviltron does not fall off.

Then they're thinking the voice is coming from inside the wood floor. They start thinking about how to pull a floor board up.

My sister goes to call her apartment manager and just happens to search Google for the phrase "Hey, can you hear me?"

She sees the Eviltron online and goes back to look again. He finds and disables the little devil this time.

Her boyfriend is pissed that he cut open his box spring.

I had to offer to either replace the box spring or take them out to dinner on us.

Bottom line is that this thing is AWESOME!!!!! Just be careful with whom and where you deploy it if you're not able to monitor the insanity yourself. In the end, this thing was an awesome prank, but it's costing me a lot more than the initial $10! :-)

Original Review:

I ordered an Eviltron fulfilled by Amazon.

It came promptly and undamaged.

I pulled out the power tab and the Eviltron activated....then it stopped making sound when the button was pressed. I even tried a new battery.

The box says that you may have to press down on the battery to get it to seat properly. I pressed and pressed and pressed to no avail.

It never worked again.

The good news is that this little guy is on it's way back to Amazon and a new one should be here tomorrow. Assuming I get one that actually works, I'll update my review at that time.

I hid this in my bedroom, on the ceiling fan blade (the magnet on the Eviltron is sufficient to hold it to a metal nut on the fan while it was on medium speed. The room isn't large, it's about 14x13. But I tested it, and with the tv on and the fan on... there was no problem hearing it at all. Anyway, I was able to avoid being there when he heard it the first night. Next day at dinner he asked if I heard it. I played dumb, and that was really hard because all I wanted to do was laugh. So the 2nd night in bed, he'd hear it and say "THAT! Did you hear that?" I couldn't say no -- it was plenty loud. I continued to play dumb. For about an hour. I nearly died about 12 times. Then he accused me of planting something ("You put something in here, didn't you? You jerk...") and I lost it. If I'd only pretended to be asleep I could have played this off for a few more nights!! So my advice is to NOT BE THERE! It's really, really hard to keep a straight face.

So tonight I've got it set on random (goes between a shuffle/scurrying sound, clicking/creaking noise, a deep exhale breath, a child's giggle, and a man whispering 'Hey can you hear me?') and it is hidden in my kids' room. They are 7 and 10 years old. Mwahahahaha. We are bad parents.

Awesome little device!

I hid this in my husband's vehicle. After driving around for two days with it going off, he thought it was an electrical short in the dashboard, and was ready to take it in to the dealer to have it looked at. Fortunately, he found the Eviltron before getting it serviced!

I was in the vehicle when he discovered it, and I don't think I've ever laughed so hard. It was one of the best jokes I've ever played on him. He thought it was a pretty good joke as well!

He's now thinking of other people to use this little gadget on. Heh heh heh. :)