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

I work 12-16+ hour days, with much of it spent in the front end of an ambulance. In the winter, the heat in our trucks is extremely drying to my eyes and nose, and it doesn't take long with the heat on for my eyes and nasal passages to feel totally dried out and irritated. My eyes were getting so dry it was making it harder for me to see things by the end of my shift if I wasn't using artificial tears multiple times a day to combat it. In an effort to hopefully spend less money on eyedrops, I decided to see if getting a humidifier for the truck might work.I saw a brand I recognized Homedics), and decided that for about $20 I could justify the impulse buy. It came in time for my next shift and at first I didn't feel much of a difference. Then I swapped it from intermittent to continuous mode, and even with how often we get in and out of the front of the truck, I noticed that I was going through far fewer eye drops per shift, and that I didn't feel like I had dried out bricks for sinuses by the time I went home for the day either.The humidifier fits just fine in our cupholders, even with a little extra room. If I don't want to put it in a cupholder (so I can leave my drink there instead), I just use a big rubber band to secure it to something on the center console where the cupholders sit. Even if I don't secure it and it bounces around, this thing doesn't leak no matter what I do. I can turn it upside down, shake it, and it's even dropped from the console area to the footwell and not spilled a drop and kept on going.I typically leave it plugged into the cable it comes with connected to a 12V car charger, and that leaves it fully charged just fine. If I need to unplug it, it usually lasts about 2hrs of continuous use with the LEDs on too before it dies and needs to be plugged back in. It's super easy to fill, I've never seen it get dirty (and even swapping the wicks is easy enough, so I guess that counts for easy cleaning), and honestly I can barely even hear it when I'm listening for it. Otherwise it's so quiet I don't even realize it's going. On one fill, I can get it to last about 8hrs of continuous use on continuous mode, which is also awesome as I have to worry about having water around to refill it a lot less than I thought I would.The only downsides (and they're small) are as follows:1) As the wick gets older, you may need to twist the wick holder around a bit with the top-half upside down to see which place the wick will allow for best contact so you get the best stream. It takes exactly two seconds to unlatch, adjust, and relatch the device. I bought mine in mid-November, and it's now mid-February and I just swapped to the second of three wicks included with the device, so that shouldn't be an issue.2) The cable that it comes with is the only one that charges the machine for me. I don't know if mine is a little wonky and the USB-C port is a little deeper on mine than it should be, but my other USB-C cables won't make good enough contact to charge the humidifier I have. YMMV, but don't lose the cable it comes with just in case.3) I've got another wick left still, but I don't know exactly what size they are (I'm about to go measure) and/or where to get replacements or perhaps if a generic wick-type filter would work.The cons are all fairly small, and haven't changed my opinion that this is the best $20 I've spent in a long, long time. Definitely been recommending it to all my friends.

I was having terrible sinus problems after moving from the humidity in the San Antonio area to the Davis Mountains in the Chihuahuan Desert. Traveling for work in the region seemed to be making things worse, especially when the dust kicks up. This unit fits in the cupholder in the center console of my truck and did a wonderful job keeping the humidity up in the cab. In fact, I accidentally made it too humid, to the point that it got muggy when I stopped for a meal and the Sun heated everything up!I definitely recommend this for travel. It also sits nicely by the hotel room bed.

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.