- Hi, I'm Parris back with another On The Go Review.
Today I'm going from Palm Springs, California
to Deming, New Mexico.
About nine hours total drive time.
I'm about halfway through the drive which I have done
with just the regular car seat here in the Honda Odyssey
but I'm going to try out the As Seen on TV
Miracle Bamboo Pillow.
World's most comfortable seat cushion, to see how it is
for the last four and a half or so hours of the drive today.
Now this goes for about $20,
you can find it anywhere they sell As Seen on TV products.
I'll put a link to it down below this video.
I picked it up I think it was over at a Walmart.
And I could do with some seat cushioning because it was
just three days ago I spent 20 hours driving to get out
to Palm Springs from Austin, Texas.
So, oh I can already smell the memory foam sort of thing
or whatever it is that's inside.
Not too much memory but chemical smell.
That's okay it won't be near my face.
Now this is a Miracle Bamboo Cushion, if you saw my
video review of the Miracle Bamboo Pillow,
also an As Seen on TV product.
Turns out the bamboo in that case is not inside the pillow.
It's not in the actual cushion, it's in the lining outside.
And there's some bamboo viscose fiber
that's inside so there's some percent,
there's a little bit of bamboo in the outside cover
of that pillow.
I imagine it's the same with this one.
The outer cover can be removed from the cushion for washing.
Do not remove or pierce the foam inside, okay.
And I guess you can't wash the inside part.
Use it indoors or outdoors.
Yuck, it has that chemical smell.
I know it's gonna smell up the whole car like that.
(car alarm beeping)
I'll just continue.
(laughs)
The cushion...
is fairly thick.
I'm about 240 pounds so that's what I'll be testing
it out with.
It's contoured, let me take the cover off and show you.
On the back there's a
kind of like a vinyl-ly plastic material
with little bumps so it doesn't slide around
in the seat as much.
And of course it has this area which faces the back.
I had to look inside out.
So that's basically where the bottom of your spine
will reside.
And a number of people have issues having damaged that
coccyx, the last little piece of the spine.
Apparently it's easy to crack falling and then for some
people that doesn't heal correctly and if you're sitting
on a hard surface, or for an extended period of time
it's just painful.
And there doesn't seem to be a way the doctors can do
anything to fix it.
They just tell you to sit on a cushion.
Okay, the zipper for this so we can see
what we got inside here.
Oh, I was thinking it was
this is a plasticy kind of foam.
Looks like that egg carton
kind of foam to me.
I don't know if I take this off
I'm gonna be able to get it back in here.
I won't take it off more than that.
So that's what you're looking at inside.
So that's different than memory foam from my experience
from looking inside the cover over my GhostBed mattress
that I sleep on.
It doesn't seem to be like this.
Okay now...
Does it still fit?
Okay, let's see how it fits in the seat.
And how it is for me, I may have to lower the seat
in order to compensate for the extra thickness so
my legs are in the right position with the steering wheel
and the pedals.
Okay and that part faces back.
Looks okay, let me bring you over here to show ya.
It's not quite as wide as this minivan seat but this
minivan seat is nice and wide for people who need
a little extra width sitting in there.
Let me sit on it and see how it feels.
Whoa I'm up high now.
Feel like at the barber shop when they put that seat in
that little thing they put in for kids to sit in
and you're so high up.
Can I drive like this?
Yeah.
It's not bad, how about the cushiness?
I can feel it right under the middle of my thighs
right where that curved part goes so...
I don't know if there's too much of me
or not enough of it but I think a little more spacious
seat cushion I would prefer.
But I'm gonna give this a try all the way to Deming
and when I get there I will do the follow-up video
of how it worked, whether I felt,
whether I was more comfortable driving
and it helped out in that way.
And also how numb or painful things got because after
about eight hours driving it gets to be kind of painful
for me to squeeze in more than eight hours in one day.
Have nine hours to do today so that last hour
will really be telling for this cushion.
Again you can find out more about it
at the link down below this video
and I will link to the follow-up video in this one
and you'll see it soon.