As a mother or father, I’ve discovered most baby-centric know-how to be fairly clunky. From cumbersome child displays to unwieldy strollers, there simply is not as a lot innovation as I hoped for again once I was pregnant. Automobile seats fall into this class, too, with layers of cushions which can be simply begging for juice stains and Cheerios to be misplaced in them, and ugly block colours that had been invented particularly to annoy me.
Automobile seats aren’t actually only for trying nice, clearly. They’re for safely transporting your youngster within the automotive and preserving them protected within the case of an accident. However what I like in regards to the Cybex Sirona S is that it isn’t solely slightly simpler on the eyes, nevertheless it has a couple of forward-thinking options, together with a wise, Bluetooth-powered buckle on it that makes certain your youngster is not left alone within the automotive.
Leaving your child in a automotive unattended can lead to a scorching automotive loss of life. After I advised one mother or father about testing this type of know-how, they scoffed and talked about how uncommon these cases are, and the way dad and mom ought to simply be extra cautious. Whereas it is uncommon—Children and Automobile Security reported 36 deaths within the US final yr—it simply may occur to any mother or father, and will simply as simply be prevented with slightly assist from know-how.
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Essentially the most spectacular factor about this automotive seat is not the seat itself, however the highly effective little buckle on it. The SensorSafe buckle is light-weight and discreet, and also you’d solely comprehend it was a Bluetooth system by the little light-up image on it. It could possibly observe when the buckle is open or closed, how far-off your cellphone is from the buckle itself, and the temperature in your automotive.
SensorSafe is a separate firm, and it companions with each Cybex and Evenflo to make automotive seats that use its buckle. Every firm then makes its personal app to pair with the system. The Cybex app could be very clear and minimalist. After plugging through which automotive seat I am utilizing and connecting it through Bluetooth to my cellphone, the app’s major web page exhibits nothing however whether or not the automotive seat is on-line, the temperature within the automotive (which it might probably solely learn if on-line), and an inventory of my units. You may add a number of Cybex units into the identical app and see all of them there, or simply the one automotive seat like I had. You will even be prompted to ask relations as emergency contacts in case your youngster is left behind within the automotive.
The app additionally has a tab for manuals. It lists the automotive seats you are utilizing, per what you have advised the app, on the high, then manuals to a couple completely different generations of SensorSafe, plus manuals to different Cybex automotive seat fashions on the very backside in case you are feeling like searching. I examined the SensorSafe 3, which differs from previous fashions as a result of it does not want a receiver plugged into your automotive to hook up with your cellphone. There’s a model with a dongle, however I examined the clip-only model. You probably have a dongle mannequin, learn Adrienne So’s evaluation of the Evenflo Gold, the place she talks about plugging the receiver into her automotive’s ODB-II port.
However even with no dongle to plug into your laptop, this automotive seat is a little bit of an set up mission. You could face it backwards to disclose the belt path, which was straightforward sufficient, however my husband and I did not discover the locking system intuitive to open up on our personal with out watching a video (this one is nice). It took a couple of tries to open the locking system, however afterwards it was straightforward to lock the seat belt in place.
