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iHome Zenergy IZBT4W Portable Sound Therapy - Review
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Jun 22, 2024
Imagine a portable device that will help you find your zen and achieve inner peace any time, even if you're miles from a power outlet. The iHome Zenergy IZBT4W Portable features 15 sounds, 4 light modes and doubles as a handy bluetooth speaker. The size of a soda can, this great little sound therapy unit can also run up to 7 hours on a charge. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the iHome Zenergy Portable and found it a great solution for travel and a solid option for children's rooms - or the baby's room - too. Check it on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2XNTO4b
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Can this little device change how you sleep? Let's find out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at this little guy
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This is the iHome Zenergy IZBT4W. We'll just call it the portable Zenergy
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So, iHome has this whole line of Zenergy devices and they're all really cool
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The whole idea is that they're lights and meditation sounds, but this actually does full sound therapy if you want to call it that
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So it includes 15 sounds in three different categories. It has four color modes and it's a Bluetooth speaker
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So let's start with the Bluetooth speaker because I have it set up. It looks like it's cycling lights
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but the lights should theoretically be reacting to the music. So I'm going to go to my Bluetooth paired phone and we'll just play some music
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And you can see the lights are reacting to the music. Generally, all this technology is not super sophisticated
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but there is actually a light sequence that seems to be reflecting the tempo of the music
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which is pretty cool. Also notice, it's a wireless Bluetooth speaker and it sounds pretty good
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So, enough of that techno music. Let's get to all the other functions because like I said
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it's sound therapy in different color modes and all of that is controlled on the bottom
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So the bottom has a sort of rubberized set of buttons and the center is power
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And then if we go around, let's see, we can go clockwise
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So on the top at 12 o'clock is relaxed sounds. So let's try some of those
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So these sequence through a set of sounds called Zen and Dream
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We'll do Dream. And Peace
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And Meditation. And Trance
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A little bit loud for me. And then we get to nature sounds
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So we have, let's see, Ocean. Storm
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Actually, that might be, that was nature maybe and river. Tell you what, we'll just listen to different sounds
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That sounds like nature. And so this is a pretty active river
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And chimes and a soothing breeze. Very nice. And then there's volume up and down
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So if this is a bit loud, we can turn the volume down a little bit
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It was pretty loud. And then, so we're going clockwise. So we have volume and then we have, we can turn different light modes
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We can turn it off. And then we can step through. Let me see, I got my little cheat sheet here
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The light modes are nightlight and glow. And you can choose, it'll just stay to one color
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Or it'll pulse to music. Or whatever it actually is, you know, producing
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Might be interesting to have that mode with one of these nature sounds
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And again, you can turn it off. I like the one where it changes colors
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So we'll leave it on that. And then on the very bottom is pause play
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Which only works with Bluetooth. Which got me a little confused. And indeed, it got me confused again
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Where it's like, oh, so I can pause the nature sounds, right? No. If you want to turn off the nature sounds, turn off the device
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Well, or nature or meditation, et cetera, right? And then you have Bluetooth pairing
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You only have to do that once. A little bit of fiddling. I had to do it a couple of times to get it to work
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But obviously, it's paired. Volume down. And then there's sleep sounds. So the sleep sounds, the five different sounds are air, focus, quiet, drive
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And this is described as an authentically recorded car ride interior to negate distracting environmental noises
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So even when you get to work, it still sounds like you're on your commute, right
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And then they have the guided breathing meditation, which is actually pretty cool
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And this is what's known as the 478 meditation. You can do your Google search to find out about this
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But if you listen, it's actually telling you what to do. And breathe out slowly
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I could have used this when I was living in the dorms in college. I was definitely trying to meditate to stay calm
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but I didn't have anything helping me. It was just me trying to figure out what the heck to do
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So something like this would be really nice. So let's get back to relax
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I really like the sounds. I really like this device. It's very cool
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So we have all the different modes. We have all the different sounds
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It's a Bluetooth speaker, if you want to use it that way. It runs up to seven hours on a charge
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or it comes with an included micro USB charging cable, and it works perfectly well while it's plugged in
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So if that seven hours isn't enough for you, you can actually have it go longer by just leaving it plugged in
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Easy enough. It is seven inches tall, and it's really light. It's surprisingly light
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It's only 10 ounces. Now, let me just say that this really is a sleep sound machine
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This really is a meditation unit. So it does work as a Bluetooth speaker
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So if you're traveling and you want to toss this in your suitcase, that's really nice
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I have a lot of portable sound machines that don't do any sort of regular speaker
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and it's just like you have the speaker. Let me access it. So this does that, which I really appreciate
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But the sound is only so-so. It's really, there's not a lot of bass going on
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You know, I don't know how long I'd want to listen to this for music
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but for the audio of a TV show or something that you might be watching on your tablet
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or something, this would work perfectly well, and it will definitely sound better than your tablet will
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So, you know, the Bluetooth is a nice added feature. Much more exciting to me is that they've gotten seven hours of battery life out of this
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Personally, I wouldn't mind it being an ounce or two heavier and actually get that full eight hours
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But maybe if you have it on softly, then you'll find that seven and a half or eight hours are just at the edge of its battery life
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So, there's a lot I like about this, and I really like this whole type of product
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These are so wonderful if you travel or if you have kids
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you know, I mean, put this next to your baby's crib at night, and now you can watch TV without every gunshot waking them up
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or without like singing because you're watching a show where people are auditioning or something
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You know, any environmental noise, this just masks all that. And something like this, you can imagine if you're having a stressful day
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you put something like this on and just go and lay on the floor or on your bed or something
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This is very calm and relaxing. I like this. I like these. Namaste, everyone
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So, before I get to the price, and you're going to be really happy about the price. It's extremely affordable. iHome does a great job of making their products affordable
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and yet really well-made and really good materials. But before we get there, my friends, let me ask if you
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Thank you. Great. Now, okay, I could seriously go in that zone
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but we're not going to. Okay. So, this is the iHome Xenergy IZBT 4W. I'm going to turn it off
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Wow. Okay. This is the iHome Xenergy IZBT 4W, and it costs $39.99 at Amazon.com
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That is a pretty darn good deal for all of these features and the sound
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And it's just a really nice little device. You can see it's easily portable
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It's light. You could really take it to work with you and stick it next to your workstation
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so you don't have to hear all the noise from all the other cubicles
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And I will say iHome has a ton of products in their Xenergy line
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So, go check out all of their options. If this is not for you, they have bigger units
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They have units that stay plugged in that are like bedside clocks
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and give you better sound if you want to use them as Bluetooth speakers. Got a ton of options. It's really an impressive lineup
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But this is a great little portable option, and I really, really appreciate that it's a Bluetooth speaker
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So, win-win. I say check it out. And I think we are going to have to go back to our meditation
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There we go. And it remembers where you were. Let's turn the volume up a little bit
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And with that, my friends, I will see you later and ask that I can catch you in my next video