Tomy Digital Plus Baby Monitor — Review
As I write this, my infant is upstairs screaming her head off while her dad sings a made-up nursery rhyme to the tune of Epona’s song from Zelda.
And thanks to the Tomy Digital Plus Baby Monitor I can hear it all perfectly.
Tomy spent a long time researching and developing this baby monitor. And they needed to — their last monitors hadn’t been updated for a very long time and were beginning to look decidedly tired next to newer, more fancy-featured monitors.
Good design
You can tell a lot of love, care and attention has gone into making the Digital Plus. Apple’s influence can be felt on the design, with a large white touchwheel providing the controls, and a base station that looks like it’s come off the bottom of a very tiny Mac.
The base station glows with a pleasant LED aura and you can change the colour or have it cycle through the rainbow automatically.
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