Product review: Vibralite Mini Watch

The Vibralite Mini Watch is a digital watch with up to 12 alarms with vibration and/or sound. It’s available in different colours.

Available to buy from Connevans.
Ages: 5 to 14

Reviewed by Sharon, mum to Evie (11) who is moderately to severely deaf.

Evie

"Evie has always been a good sleeper. We wanted to encourage her to be independent, not relying on us to wake her up every morning for school especially as she’s starting senior school this September.

We had a look on the National Deaf Children’s Society website for some ideas. This is where we found out about the Vibralite mini watch and the loan service they provide. We didn’t want to buy one without testing it so we requested a loan and were quickly provided with the watch.

The instructions were easy to follow to set the alarm. The watch can be set several times a day which would be a useful tool if someone needed to be reminded to take medication. You can also choose different alarm modes: vibrating, sound or both. There is a light as well.

We set the watch to go off at bedtime and in the mornings. Evie just used the vibration mode. So did it work? Yes, every morning the vibration was enough to wake Evie up independently. She loved the light as she said if she woke up in the middle of the night she was able to see what time it was. Evie told us it made her feel ‘more grown-up’ because she was getting herself up in the mornings.

We didn’t buy this watch, only because Evie wasn’t keen on the colour (it was orange) or the velcro strap which she said was itchy. We did however buy a similar one in a colour she likes which Evie uses all the time. It was really helpful trying out the watch and we’d recommend it."