We posted on this little tyke yesterday, but didn't have this pic to show. Today we have it. This is a very cool feature that is not only guaranteed to sell more humidifiers, but is also a very nice nightlight. The warm steam shoots up from the hole and the LED hits it with a bright light. When the water is done, you no longer see the spout, so its easy to know when to refill.
cute feature- the LED, but can you turn it off!!???
question..does it turn off by itself when it runs out of water? that is a function I am looking for in a humidifier.
Is it easy to clean?
i bought this a couple of months ago after seeing it a friends apt. I loved it at first but I've found that a) if you leave water in it for even a day it gets moldy...which is much faster than i remember most humidifiers b) its hard to clean c)you can't turn off the light
but it is compact and i do like the light
re: "The warm steam shoots up from the hole and the LED hits it with a bright light."
I had a date like that once.
I had a different Bionaire model, which leaked repeatedly and has damaged the built-ins and ruined the paint it was placed on. Terrible product. I recently replaced it with a Venta Sonic model, which has been great so far. To sweeten the deal, according to the Venta Sonic box, it is the "#1 Humidifier in Germany!" - can you beat that?!
PATRICK (too)!! Gosh, I had a mouthful of tea just before I came to your post ... but now it's on my keyboard!!
:)
This is plenty cute & all, but it's the cool-mist technology that causes problems, because the low water temperature is like a perfect spa for bacteria, unlike that in an old-school steam humidifier, which killed any germs before they were released into the air.
Still, the light-on-steam effect is cool, however the steam is produced. It's especially effective in a dark-walled room, like my old bedroom with its all-black decor, where a simple 7-watt nightlight bulb illuminated the shifting clouds of steam that actually came from a clunky 195Os humidifier, but which I had rigged up to look as though they ascended from a classic funerary urn on a high pedestal.
The whole thing was a strictly functional necessity in a dry, steam-heated house, but catching a glimpse of that little home-made contraption at the end of an axial view down a long, dark hallway gave a potentially ugly humidifier the glamourous-but-slightly-sinister vibe of an altar in an ancient temple. Unfortunately, I never got around to taking a picture of it in operation, but a photo of its background setting during the warm off-season is right behind my name at the bottom of this post. Or, at least, it is if I did it right this time.
Regards,
MAGNAVERDE.