Caleb's Heartbeat Voice Recorder Captures Your Message Up to 10 Seconds Long. Express Yourself to Someone Special (Pkg. of 2)

Bring new life to old toys. Add sound effects to your models and model railroading simply and at little cost. I bought this to add a new dimension to a 50 year old toy submarine by adding a "Dive" and "General Quarters" alarms. Could be used just as easily at a model railroad station or depot to signal your passengers "All-Aboard!".Pros: Well Built, Good Sound Quality, Simple to Use, Relatively Small Size, Inexpensive vs other comparable solutions.Cons: You may need to have some mechanical know-how or be creative in your thinking regarding mounting solutions. May be a limiting factor in your decision making.While I gave the sound quality a "good" rating, it's not super. It may take 2 or 3 attempts to get the right recording level and output quality. How and where you hold the device while recording will make a big difference in the overall sound quality (garbage in, garbage out as they say). So the better the sound source and location of the device to the source will be dramatically different. My end result was very satisifying. I held the device as close to the source as possible without actually holding the device. I used the eraser-end of a pencil to depress the button to record and made sure the volume level at the source was adjusted to prevent distortion.The only other limitation is in your imagination's ability to find uses for this niffty little device.

It was worth a shot (gag gift at party), but I agree with the reviewers, it is not very loud, the replay quality is pretty tinny. Not sure it will even be able to be heard inside a stuffed animal!

I wanted one in a hurry and received it very quickly from National Artcraft. It recorded very well I thought, for what it is; pretty clear and loud enough; lightweight. I had my daughter say "Hi Grandma, I love you", then decorated it with paper flowers and mailed it in time for Grandma's birthday. Now all Grandma has to do is push the button anytime she wants to feel loved! I imagine she will put it with a collection of framed photos. I'm glad I chose this one - a few dollars more than others I saw- as it does work well.

Does what it says on the tin, simple to use (press a recessed button to record, the main top button to play. No delay or feedback at start of recording makes it a little tricky to get right, but it works just fine with a few practices. Batteries are a standard button cell, but the device has to be carefully disassembled to access it. Better access to the battery and slight improvement to the recording function would make this 5 stars.Worthy of note is that this recorder is a bit on the quiet side -- it's probably not suitable for putting inside something like a stuffed animal, but since it's not advertised as such, I'm not docking the review.

I purchased these little recorders to add to my 'Swiss Miss' costume. I used one to record yodeling and another to record Swiss cow bells ringing :) They work like a champ!! Clear sound and sooooo easy to record. If you mess up, just re-record, over and over again if necessary. I was nervous when I read that quite a few complained about the quality of the recording but glad I dismissed that and bought them anyway. These little guys exceeded my expectations. I would definitely recommend buying!!

I purchased two for $15.00. They do not record very well and the sound is muffled. It dropped and the sound was gone so I had to redo the sound.It is very easy to operate, but I think something like this you should be able to get for much cheaper at a dollar store or even try Build a Bear, maybe they will give you one for free:((

Only one of the 2 worked. It worked good but I needed 2 for a mothers day gift craft and now will only be able to do one craft. I'm going to try to replace the batteries. Hopefully that works

Bought two sets from two different sellers. Photos were identical but items were not. The lower quality set was sold by "stuffems" and the better functioning set was sold by "inventiv". With china companies what you get is random and they all just use the same pictures.Our use: My daughter recorded segments from the halloween song from Nightmare Before Christmas on them. Then they put them under pumpkin painted plates on their Nightmare Before Christmas class decorated door. Batteries lasted really well. Kids pressed "pumpkin plates" to play them regularly while walking through the hall... probably over 100 times.The "stuffems" seller set worked fine but were "tinny sounding" and song was muffled. The "inventiv" set had much better sound quality. Since selling photos are the same... how do you tell them apart? The lower quality ones had 1.5cm sized play buttons and the better ones had 1/2 cm buttons. Obviously, buttons were not relevant to function... it was microphones. The recording microphones were just better on the "inventiv" sold ones.