Customer Reviews

Your. Minder Personal Alarm Clock With Power Supply - Record up to (6) of Your OWN Alarm Messages

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We bought this to use primarily for homeschooling, and it has been very helpful! It serves as a make-shift school bell to help the kids learn to follow a schedule better. We recorded Daddy's voice (since the kids already hear my voice all day long) saying things like, "First subject...Science" and "Lunch time!" I'm glad the clock comes with an adapter to plug it in. It has been worth the cost; we'd buy one again. I wish the alarm had a volume control, and eight alarm options instead of six, but other than that, I think it's great!

REVIEW EDIT: It was terrific while it worked! Maybe two full years worth of use is too much to expect, but the voice recording feature gave out, and I noticed a tendency for the time to run slow. Every few months it would be as much as 10 minutes off (with fresh batteries, AND the adapter plugged in). I'd love to buy this again if it were of higher quality.

I purchased this to use as a pill reminder and for its clock function. So far I am extremely pleased with both functions. The talking clock that announces both time and date is very loud and clear and an unexpected addition. My own suggestion would be that the clock was luminous which would make it more functional at night but this is compensated for by a backlite button that illuminates the clock for 30 secs. The alarm function that allow you to record your own personal message is great! makes it extremely versatile beyond a medication reminder!. I am very please with this product and would highly recommend it once it proves to be well constructed and remains functional.

I purchased the "Your Minder Personal Alarm Clock" because you can record up to 6 of your own alarm messages. I thought this would be great for my aging mother that needed reminders to take medications. The voice recording works well, but there is no way to eliminate the other messaging that comes out at 4 times the volume of your recorded message which is very irritating. There is no volume control. I put tape over the speakers to reduce the volume but then my recorded voice could not be heard. The pre-recorded messages are so loud you can hear the clock casing rattle. It is not possible to softly wake up with this siren of a voice going off.

I have bought every alarm clock there is, but my son would sleep through them. He would only wake when he heard me call him. I saw this alarm and thought I would try it. IT WORKS. I recorded my voice waking him and he wakes up. Now I can sleep in. He will be moving out soon and I was worried, but not now. I only wish you could set it for different times on different days of the week so it wouldn't go off on his day off.

This clock is well designed and well built. It's loud, and that's a good thing. I really liked being able to record my own message and personalize the alarms.

Once set up, it's VERY EASY to use. Simply push the red button to acknowledge the alarm. A few things to know: If the person is in the back of the house and doesn't hear the alarm, it will turn off after a minute or so. Also, good to read the instructions when first setting it up (it's not too intuitive.) Overall, this reminder system is awesome!!

My elderly aunt has medium dementia and up til now I have had to call her twice a day to remind her to take her medication. I can now go away for a few days and know that if she is home and hears the messages the medication is taken. The fact that I can record my voice with a message at a specific time is one of the best things about this product. If it was just a buzzer she may not have remembered what it was for and not complied as well. This has been a very good purchase and has taken away some of the stress of being a caretaker.

A speech therapist recommended this product to me, to assist my elderly mother in remembering daily tasks. I am very glad I bought it.

My mom, who has moderate Alzheimer's, lives independently but I visit her daily. She enjoys participating in activities at the facility where she lives, but she typically forgets to leave her apartment to go. I purchased this product as a tool for helping Mom remember her schedule. Each day during my visit, I set the alarms for the next 24 hours, including a few that recur daily. The voice-recording option allows me to refer specifically to the reason for the alarm, such as: "Hi Mom, it's 12:45 and time to leave for a music performance at 1 p.m."

The only glitch we've had in using the alarm Mom's ability to turn it off. This is a minor issue because Mom does successfully turn it off. But when she presses the red "alarm acknowledged" button, a voice recording continues: "Alarm Acknowledged. The next alarm is alarm number 4 at two forty-five p.m." This leads Mom to wildly start punching other buttons to make the alarm shut up, and these other buttons in turn prompt other recordings, such as the current time. She hates this, and it's really confusing to her, and I see her point.

But despite this annoyance, this product has been tremendously helpful in improving my mom's quality of life. She attends about 80 percent of her activities, whereas her average had been about 50 percent of the activities before we began using this alarm.

I would suggest this product for anyone helping a dementia patient to remember activities or medications, but I would also suggest you start using it before the person actually needs it, so that the user can become accustomed to it and incorporate into his or her routine without frustration, before a greater level of confusion affects its efficacy.

I purchased this to help my Dad with his medications that he always seems to forget to take. When I took it out of the carton it looked like it had already been opened. Upon trying to record my voice for the alarms it took me 20 minutes and then seemed to stop playing back. I took the battery out and started all over again. It seemed to take this time. Then when my Dad turned off the alarm because he wasn't going to be home, when he turned it back on all of the sound stopped including the clocks own voice!!! I returned and and will not reorder. I was VERY disappointed with this product. I don't know if I got someone elses damaged item or if this was just a piece of junk right out of the box.

The concept of having a voice reminder to take pills, etc is great. However, this clock has some seriously annoying features. When we tested it before sending it to my elderly mother, we decided she would through it out the window. But she too was intrigued by a talking alarm clock and wanted to try it. When I visited a couple of months later, the clock was hidden away in a closet. The first problem is the message keeps repeating so you have to stop what you are doing and turn it off. The second problem is that when the recorded message is turned off, an official, stern loud voice says the next message will be at such and such time. The annoyance of that announcement erases anything positive gained from the recorded message. Who cares when the next alarm/message will be?

Since my mother was having trouble remembering the date and day of week, we set the clock up with all of the alarms turned off. We put the clock on a kitchen shelf with her cup collection. The gray clock Your. Minder Personal Alarm Clock With Power Supply - Record up to (6) of Your OWN Alarm Messageswith a dull gray display looked so dark and ugly next to the pretty cups. Plus the display is so dim, she could not see it from across the small room. Still, having the date and day of the week displayed is very helpful to her when taking her daily vitamins.