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(More customer reviews)Folks, this thermometer is simply fantastic. Fast, accurate, quiet.
My expectations buying it were low. We had another non-contact thermometer several years ago, and while that one wasn't very accurate or nearly as easy to use as this one, when it broke, we surely missed it. The old one had to be moved around the temple area, it would click while gathering information, and then emit a longer beep when done -- enough to sometimes wake up a baby, or attract attention of a toddler, which was what ultimately doomed it. The readings it gave were very loosely related to the actual temperature, but were useful nonetheless: by taking several measurements, and knowing what they would normally be for this particular person when healthy you could make a pretty good guess whether you should bother with a "real" thermometer. E.g. it would mostly report my temperature as 93, so 97 would be fever for me (and you'd have to do it maybe 5 times to get a somewhat consistent number anyway). But again, despite of all these shortcomings, the thermometer was quite useful, and at first I tried to find the same model, but it was discontinued (and looks like the manufacturer doesn't make household thermometers anymore).
Given that experience, this Kidz-Med thermometer now feels like magic. Fast, quiet, and you can actually trust the number displayed, the first time. I still take several measurements, because that's what I'm used to, and because it's fun, but they all come up pretty much the same (just make sure there's no hair in the way). Boy am I glad the other thermometer got discontinued.
The only negative about this thermometer is the name "5-in-1" is misleading. There's only 3 modes: body, surface, room. Sure you can scan different things in the surface mode, but then why stop at 5 -- I can come up with thousands of different surfaces to measure, doesn't make it thousands-in-1 thermometer.
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