Elcos America
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2025
Two out of the three cases I received, two were visibly used, with previous owners’ names still on them. Additionally, the product delivered was not the one I ordered, and it is incompatible with the included charger. I do not recommend!!
Daryl Stout
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2025
After downloading the app onto the smartphone, it was easy to program the text. The percentages at the bottom control the brightness, and the speed. It has both a pin and magnet to attach/adhere to your outfit. I had a similar scrolling badge awhile back, but lost the software for it.
Amber C. Edwards
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2025
I use this LED pin to help me advertise while I get leads for the HVAC business I work for. I get rave reviews from the customer saying, “ You are a walking advertisement.” Love it!
James Ettwein
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2025
I had a single color one of these and like this multi-color better. It's easy to program, communicates between your iPhone and the badge without wires. It looks great. And it attracts a lot of attention.
Richard Freedman
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2024
The hardware seems good, but the software is not good.I installed the Android app, and it works...sort-of ok, but not very well.It's obviously a translation from Chinese, but not a very good one.Also, the software appears to be made for many devices, of various sizes, so many functions, and any fonts larger than 9px don't work..and there are no fonts smaller than 9px, so 9px is all you get. Also only 2 or 3 english fonts available at 9px. So it's pretty limited.What would be great would be if the Android and iOS apps were open-sourced, so that the programmers among us could see what the communication protocol is, and write some decent apps for this.
Chris DC
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2024
I bought 'Red' and I just love this product, however, I wish the design app wasn't so limited.It's small and perfect as a name tag. You can also design your own name and images on their app which is really fun to do; you can even see and use other people's designs that have been uploaded to the app. The light is pretty bright and the battery seems to last for a few hours. The only issue is that when you design your own animation, you only get a few panels to create your animation. The animation works like a flip book animation, it works to create very short GIF's.
Minna
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023
Got this as part of my Dot Matrix (from Spaceballs) Halloween costume. You can either use the pin back or magnet to affix the badge to your clothing, though the magnet felt very weak to me. The badge charges with a micro USB port (I don't think a cord was included) and you can program several different animations, texts, and basic images via the app. Eventually. It took me several tries to get the app to work without crashing. Eventually (and just in the nick of time!) I was able to get my badge to scroll "VIRGIN ALARM" and "SLEEP MODE" (and later "TRICK OR TREAT"). There are some preset animations you can download as well that were fun to try out. You do have to go through several permissions screens to get the app going (and again, even then, it kept crashing on me).
Patrick
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2020
I just got this last night and absolutely love it. It works great, is simple to use, and I couldn't be happier.My use case:I am not using this for a name tag - I am using this for a notification on my office door. As a professor during COVID-19 I am recording lots of content for my students, and delivering live lectures over the internet. People innocuously knocking on my door disrupts these activities and I wanted cool but clear way to notify them. Now I can have this sign say "Recording Lectures", "Live Lecture", "Available", or "Be right back" in scrolling (or static) text that immediately draws the attention of anyone standing outside my office. And for use: with the app I can change messages in under 30 seconds, even if I have walked away from my office and have to re-connect, and in less than 10 seconds most of the time. I knew this would be cool, but I was pleasantly surprised at how simple it was.Pros:VERY easy to useVery brightRechargeable batteryCons:Static multi-color: There are 4 zones of this, each of which have a different color. This gives the effect of color changing as it scrolls, but they cannot be changed. For the price I am totally happy, and it is my fault for not reading the description, but I probably would have bought a single color one to look a bit more professional if I had realized this before. Not a huge deal by any means, and quite literally the only thing I would change about the device.In short: As long as you are cool with the multi-color you cannot go wrong with this device - it far exceeded my expectations in simplicity and functionality for an incredibly reasonable price.