Timex Healthcare Acrobat 5-Second Oral Thermometer

Customer Rating:
Summary: Might as well just guess your temperature.
Comment: This thermometer is not accurate at all. I get a temperature variation of 5 degrees when doing successive readings. It will go from 101 degrees to 96 degrees, and just jumps all around, it is totally useless as a thermometer. Yes it is fast, but by fast all they did was program it to stop reading the temperature after 3 seconds or so, which means the reading is always still fluctuating; the stupid machine will not wait long enough for the temperature to normalize so that it can get an accurate reading.

You are better off just guessing what your temperature is, that will be more accurate than this piece of garbage. The lesson perhaps is: don't buy medical equipment that is made in China.

If you are sick or your temperature is important to know for health reasons, this thermometer could kill you. No joke.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Fast & Reliable
Comment: I work in the Veterinary profession and this is the best thermometer ever! It is the fastest thermometer that I have ever found which really comes in handy for our patients. It makes things much easier on everyone involved. Fast and accurate, what more would one ask for???

Customer Rating:
Summary: Inaccurate
Comment: I bought this in anticipation of a liver transplant. I knew I would have to take my temp several times a day in the weeks after the surgery. Unfortunately, this thermometer was horribly inaccurate. I could take my temperature one time and I would show that I was running a fever. I could reset it and take the temperature again and it would show that it was below normal. The fluctuation could be as much as 2 to 3 degrees at time. I even checked it against the thermometers used in the hospital and it was always off by at least 1 degree.

Very inaccurate and potentially dangerous. Don't waste your money on this one - go with BD or another tried and true medical brand. Timex needs to stick to watches.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Fast, but not so accurate
Comment: The plus side of this thermometer is that it is amazingly fast at giving you your temperature. The downside, is its accuracy does not seem to match its speed. While I don't have a good way to calibrate the thermometer, I have tried taking my temperature a couple times in succession and gotten readings that vary by more than a degree. It also, on a couple of occasions, told me that my temperature is about 120F, which is unlikely as 105-6F will kill you.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Works Good
Comment: It's fast, convenient, and fairly accurate. It gives a reading in under 10 seconds. I would have given it 5 stars but it isn't 100% accurate. I took different readings only seconds apart it and it gave me three different temperatures, although they were only .2 degrees away. A mercury thermometer always gives the same reading if taken at the same time.

Fast - grade A
Convenience - grade A
Accuracey - grade B