HoMedicsPortable Humidifier - Small Air Humidifiers for Bedroom, Plants, Office, Travel - Cool Mist Humidifiers, Color-Changing Accent Light, 2 Mist Settings, Black

UPDATE: So, it's been a year now and I've used this thing pretty much every night during the winter months. I've noticed a lot of bad ratings saying that it stopped working. If I hadn't read the care directions, I might be saying that too. I think the key to keeping it working is that you have to keep the little mist holes cleared of mineral deposits. A Q tip (or paper towel) and some 50/50 vinegar and water seems to keep the holes clear for me.. I just took this on a 12 hour drive with the heater blasting in 10 degree weather, and this, again kept my eyes and nose from drying out. We all keep ours filled and in our bags around here.I sing, and where we rehearse, the air is so dry in the winter, I start strangling. This is such a life saver. It lasts on intermittent through rehearsal, and then right on through our performance. It's quite effective when set behind me on a stand. I also use it at night plugged in on intermittent and am always pleased to see it still running when I wake up 8 hours later. I love that it doesn't spill. I just throw it into my bag. Best of all, it's absolutely awesome in the car, especially on long trips. I get sinus headaches, and my eyes dry out when the heater is on. I plugged this thing in and it resolved that lifelong issue immediately. Who'da thunk it! Easy to refill too. It could have a better battery life of course. But I've yet to find the perfect little humidifier. This is as close as it gets for me. I'm buying one for the other singer in our group. I can actually afford these on my little budget.

This fit the bill for a trip to the dry, desert conditions of Las Vegas in the winter. Small enough that it didn't take up much room in my suitcase yet did a great job of keeping our room humidified.

I bought this for extra humidification when traveling with a portable CPAP. These travel units don't have a water tank and just use an inline device that captures moisture from your breath. Not as effective as a water tank, so I tried this unit from a recognized brand.Placed it on my nightstand and ran it on intermittent the first night. The instructions suggested it would use up enough water that running on full would not last an 8 hour night. In the morning, I found it had only used a fraction of the water. I woke up with a dry throat. Some of this issue is surely that this (and other small portable humidifiers) are ultrasonic, which creates a fine mist that settles, rather than being absorbed into the air, as with a heated humidifier. You can watch this as the device operates.Next time I placed it on the rooms a/c unit, thinking this would result in more of the water being evaporated into the room air. This did work better, but the unit wasn't functioning in the morning. However, I believe this to be the fault of my Anker powerbank which is made for charging a phone and appears to turn off after a time, when the current drawn is below a certain level.After that, I ran an extension cord to the nearest outlet and ran it in intermittent mode on top of the a/c unit. This worked much better and my throat dryness was minimal in the morning. It still used less than half the water in the reservoir, however.On my first trip, I had a difficult time remembering how to switch modes with the single button and turn off the colored light ring, which I find quite annoying when I am trying to sleep. I put a label on it to remind me of the modes.Size of the unit is almost identical to some bluetooth speakers at about 2.5" in diameter and just over 7" tall.The internal battery is only enough to run it a few hours, so it will need an external power source with a Micro USB connector if that kind of runtime is needed.Overall, this did solve my problem once I experimented with it and found it a good value for what I paid.Update 2/24/23: On my most recent trip I found my throat dry the first morning, but after the first night, it had put enough humidity into my hotel room that my problem was resolved. Running it steady seems to use most of the water in the tank within a few hours, so I will run it that way for a few hours before bed. Then I'll put it on the nightstand on intermittent spray and there is plenty of water left in the tank in the morning. I also have a correction to my earlier review: The water droplets do not settle. If that were the case, my phone and other items on the nightstand would have been soaked after just a little while. So this does get absorbed into the air.Added 10/24/23 I think the battery or power supply finally died after roughly a year and a half of routine travel usage. It wont operate plugged in or on battery, but some of the internal LED's are on. I've had bicycle tail lights that behaved like this when the battery was so low that it could not turn itself off properly. I've gotten my money's worth out of it.

I took delivery of this from Amazon yesterday. Read the instructions, followed to a T. Unit worked great for the 5 hours. Unplugged, emptied and set it aside for the night.Went to use it this morning in my home office. Filled up with distilled water, plugged in, turned on and started working.I quickly noticed something was not right as the unit began hissing and not misting. When hissing, water bubbles up and went all over top of unit and all around the table it is on.There was no dropping by me or any other thing to cause it to not work properly. I emptied the water, used qtip with 50% white vinager to clean, let dry, plug back in and same problem.I called Amazon for help and was offered 15% off to keep the unit I only received less than 24 hours ago and used once. She then said I could return it for credit. I shared how after it performed so well yesterday, I threw out the oem box in my trash which happened to have been picked up at 6:30A this morning so I have no box. She asked if I had a bag to put it in and the stick a return label to it. Advised her all I had was a Walmart shopping bag. She said okay, use that. I was like are you sure?? The thing would rip open and the unit would get lost or damaged in the UPS system.She said those were my 2 options. I asked her to send a replacement and I could then use that box to return this defective unit. She said I only had the 2 previous options to choose from.I’ve been a prime member for many years and spend a lot with Amazon annually. I can’t believe this was the non-support I received on a defective $30 item that is now in the trash as it is no use to me if it does not function properly.I’m sure mine is a one off defective unit. At least I’d like to think so. But the lack of a respectful resolution from Amazon is crazy.I even gave an analogy to the customer service gal asking if she would be happy if she bought a new tire for her car that had a slice in it and where she bought it from offered her 15% off to just keep it. She did not answer but the obvious answer if no.When you buy something and it malfunctions within 24 hours of receiving it, one would hope for a positive resolution.Not in this case…