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| Brand: Grobag Egg
Category: Baby Product
List Price: £19.95
Buy New: £16.80
You Save: £3.15 (16%)
New (16) from £15.10
Avg. Customer Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 8
Color: multi
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 4.1 x 3.6
EAN: 5055165220003
ASIN: B000DZF1WE
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Easy to understand colour coded system indicates room temperature | | • | Digital thermometer with permanent 'back-lit' LCD readout | | • | Gentle night light | | • | Instructions and safe sleep guide enclosed | | • | UK Mains only powered adaptor supplied |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 61 more reviews...
 Served us well for years October 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We have had an egg for a couple of years now. Our daughters bedroom is subject to extreme temp changes and we needed to be able to see what the temperature was in the dark. The egg seemed to be the perfect solution, and it has been. It has a lovely glow as a night light, and it has always been accurate enough to warn us when we need to open her windows (summer time!) or put extra blankets over her (sometimes her room becomes so cold that we have to put the heating on in the middle of the night!).
If you live in a modern home with proper central heating and insulation, then you probably don't really need a bedroom thermometer (or perhaps you'll be one of these people worrying about a thermometer being one or two degrees out!), but if you are worried that your child's bedroom will not hold it's temperature well at night, then the Egg really is the best thing on the market.
 Apparently it's always hot! October 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well, like the others I find this to read ridiculously hot. When we have another thermometer (which is also inaccurate reading too high, that's why we replaced it with this!) reading 23.5 and the heating thermostat set at 19 the egg continues to warn us it's 24.9 degrees in here. This is positively dangerous, I bought this product because I am disabled in a way that I can't tell my own body temperature and need to rely on a thermometer, I could die from hypothermia if I trusted this thing. It's going straight back.
Useless!!! Don't buy.... October 3, 2008
Save your money and buy a basic nursery type thermometer for a few pounds. We bought this one and a basic nursery one from Mothercare and we have built in thermometer on our alarm clock. The Grobag one is always hotter by at least 3c and I will be returning it to the manufacturers. Like other reviewers it sits on a bedside table out of direct sunlight etc and is incorrect. Some days I will feel chilly and it reads 21c and says "too warm". Worst thing I have bought for my baby up to now - I would definitely not recommend at all.
Inaccurate September 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We bought the Grobag Egg and have found that it's about 2 degrees C higher than it should be. I'm sending it back to the manufacturer. I emailed them and they replied saying that it should be accurate from between + or - 1 degree C.
Apparently they test all the Eggs that come back to them in a `draft proofed box for approximately 3 hours with a thermocouple attached to a calibrated Digitron thermometer' and observe the temperature readings through a window.
They apportion typical reasons for inaccurate readings down to customers handling the sensor, errors in other measuring devices, differences in air current and sunlight!
All I can say is that ours sat undisturbed out of direct sunlight on a bedside table, in a small bedroom, that had a window and door - much like most peoples nursery.
I tested the Egg against a mercury thermometer, a digital one and our room Digistat. The Egg was 2 degrees C over the other 3.
I think perhaps the manufacturer should test the Egg in a real life environment and not a lab, and should not set the display to read to 1 decimal place when they only regard it accurate to + or - 1 degree C.
It's not something that gives us peace of mind and in my view it's a fun gadget only and should not be relied on for accurate room temperature readings. We paid 20 for it and that's too expensive for what is really only coloured light. Even if they got the accuracy to within + or - 1 degree C, that's a significant temperature difference and you can get more accurate thermometers for a lot less.
I await the results of their test on our Egg.
It's a pretty night light September 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this product to provide me with peace of mind regarding the temperature of my baby's room. But, as the other reviews indicate, the egg consistently gives a temperature 2 or 3 degrees higher than other thermometers. This is frustrating and disappointing. It does look pretty though and makes a good little night light - but no good for peace of mind when looking at temperature!
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