We all love to make fun of those silly TV commercials for the latest and greatest miracle product that is "not available in stores" and "available only through this exclusive TV offer". We laugh at them because the claims are often far too good to be true, and the product rarely lives up to the hype. For example, the ShamWow? Don't bother... trust me on that one. It's no more absorbent than any other towel, and it definitely does not suck the liquid up right before your eyes like they show in the commercial.
But there is at least one product, though its commercial is still quite silly, that doesn't make any outrageous claims and does just what the ad says it does. We recently needed to add a second floor lamp to our home office, due to the dark green walls sucking all of the light out of the room. The problem was that I would not be able to use the twist switch on the lamp to turn it on, and there is no switch-controlled power outlet on that side of the room. I looked for remote controlled lamps, and the cheapest one I could find was $139! So instead, I bought an $8 lamp at Target, and a
Handy Switch. All this product claims to do is turn on and off whatever is plugged into its receiver, and that's exactly what it does. The switch module snaps in and out of a mounting bracket which I mounted to the side of my printer stand with the included double-sided Scotch tape. And it does a fine job of turning the lamp on and off, just as if it were a hard-wired light switch. I actually find it to be better than the X10 devices I used to use for my lamps at our old apartment - it's a natural-feeling, easy-to-flip switch rather than the highly unresponsive rubber buttons on the X10 remotes, and the effect is almost instant, where the X10 modules always had a slight delay.
So, if you've seen the Handy Switch ads and thought it might be a useful product for you, disabled or not, but just weren't sure how well it worked, now you know at least one person who is happy with it! And if you do decide to order one for yourself based on my review, please do so via my affiliate link, so I can make a little extra money off your purchase!
(Disclosure: I am a Handy Switch affiliate, but I was not paid to write this review. I only get paid if you buy one! I guarantee my review is 100% honest and unbiased.)
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