Something happened to me this morning that might have changed my life a little. I went out to my truck this morning to go get a cup of coffee, and on the way there I was confronted by a man coming from the city bus terminal. I was a bit thrown off by this because [...]
Read More chance, flashlight, homeless, random, Solar, solar flashlightJonathan Janke has created an emergency light source that is pretty cool – it's chemically luminescent, creates no heat, is not affected by wind, and has the packaging material integrated into the design. Meet the Sustainable Emergency Light: The SEL is about as large as a large coffee mug, and creates about 24 hours of [...]
Read More chemical luminescence, handheld, Jonathan Janke, portable lighting, SEL, sustainable, Sustainable Emergency LightThat's right – a bar of light, er, soap, wait, no, it's a light. It's a light that looks like a bar of soap. A Soap Light. Jiyeon Ahn and Jieun Kim of the multidisciplinary design firm Luca 12:00 have created this handheld light, which, as you can imagine, fades up and out as you [...]
Read More handheld, Jieun Kim, Jiyeon Ahn, Luca 12:00, Soap LightWe always talk about having a spray-on product that can erase stray beams of light in the Entertainment business, and my heart of hearts hopes that other industries experience the same problems. Our product was always called "Rosco Beam-Stop," or "GAM Beam-Away," or even something crass like "Lee one-go-%$#@-yourself, stray beam of light." Yeah, we're [...]
Read More flashlight, handheld, LED, LED Torch, tube, Vadim KibardinRemember Hammacher Schlemmer? Their stuff is often in that magazine in the airline seat pocket that you pick up when your iPod died and you already read your US News twice already. You know, with the Stainless Steel Wallet and the Rear View Mirror Bluetooth Speakerphone with Deep Fryer. Or something. Well, guess what? They [...]
Read More Andy Dick, flashlight, Hammacher Schlemmer, infrared, LEDLavrans Laading invented a totally mechanical flashlight – the only thing that's electronic about it is the LED! No batteries, all mechanical – relying on a series of springs and a wind-up mechanism. The prototype of Lavrans' flashlight runs for up to 3 minutes on a charge, but is being engineered to have better numbers. [...]
Read More flashlight, Lavrans Laading, mechanical flashlightI just read a story that made me ask two questions – what is an eLED, and we have a United States Deep Caving Team? First, what is an eLED? In the case of this flashlight, eLED is essentially referring to the technology behind their power circuit; as the battery life decreases, the lumens and [...]
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