Great concept but overall has design flaws
The idea of a vibrating pillow that you can hug is a fantastic concept! The pillow itself is pretty soft and is a nice texture.<br />Personally I think there's a couple design flaws, I'm sure with little more work they could easily revamp the product to make it more user friendly.<br />First off the zipper for the space to insert the vibration button / battery pack sticks out quite a bit which may not work too well for some folks for a few different reasons (such as getting poked by the zipper while laying on it). My suggestion is to put an extra flap of fabric over it and seal it with velcro that way it's still accessible but also easily hidden.<br />Another design issue is how the vibration button fits into the pillow itself. The vibration button is about the size of my fist (width wise) and it just slides in and out of the pocket that's in the pillow. The pocket is fairly large. When the button is in the pillow it slides around A LOT which makes it so you have to move the pillow around and kind of go "fishing for The Sweet spot" to make it vibrate. Also you have to hold the button down to keep it vibrating which may not be very easy for some. My suggestion would be to make the pocket smaller for the vibration button so it's a little more secure and to put little Switch on the vibration button to either vibrate when it is squeezed or have the option to flip a switch and have it continuously vibrate, you could even put a 5 minute 10 minute etc time option on the switch.<br />Other than that it's a great idea.<br />One of my kids doesn't seem to mind having to search for The Sweet spot to make it vibrate but my older kid with autism (who I got the pillow for to begin with) lost interest pretty quickly because he couldn't keep hugging it tight enough or just right to make it vibrate the whole time with the vibration button sliding around in it.<br />It looks like this seller has a lot of interesting sensory gadgets so I will be exploring those other options very soon.
Rating: 3 stars