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RC LED Solar Spotlight Enhances Your Backyard Karaoke
Posted by Jason Chen at 4:40 AM on August 14, 2008
Solar powered spotlights seem like a pretty smart idea for areas of the country that have enough light. Think Geek tested it with a south-facing balcony and it was able to get enough sun power to shine both lights at full power for eight hours. That's pretty impressive, seeing as it's unlikely that you'd be in the dark for eight hours unless you were burying a body in your backyard. What's even better about this version is that it's RC, so you can point it at any direction you want via the 20-foot range IR remote. Hell, you can even shine it at your neighbour's window for eight hours at a time if they're being ridiculously loud. [ThinkGeek]
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rcast1986
Posted 5:09 AM 14/8/08
Sam Jackson: "I'm the Po-Leece; you have to do what I say!"
rcast1986
siville
Posted 4:51 AM 14/8/08
OK, OK, OK, I've got it...
One green spot and one red spot to decorate for Christmas.
One Orange and one purple spot for Holloween.
I now need several sets of these!
siville
siville
Posted 4:47 AM 14/8/08
I live in Florida, talk about being able to take advantage of the solar capacity!
The only problem is that solar lights tend to look very dim after about a month in use down here.
siville
OldCrow
Posted 5:38 AM 14/8/08
The remote is for only turning on the lights, not pointing them.
OldCrow
aec007
Posted 5:35 AM 14/8/08
"Enhances"???? WTF?
That looks like a sentry turret from Half Life!
I think any self respecting home owner will never install something so ugly.
Hummmm... then again you have pink flamingos and lawn gnomes....
aec007
bpapa9013
Posted 5:32 AM 14/8/08
So you can control/move the direction of the spots with the remotes? Weird, excessive and pointless: WANT!
bpapa9013
GadgetPlay
Posted 6:31 AM 14/8/08
I like to keep the lights off when I bury bodies in my back yard. The lights draw too many bugs.
GadgetPlay
tek_nic
Posted 6:20 AM 14/8/08
@OldCrow: That sucks. I was really hoping for pointing them. And then I would figure out a way for them to move wildly whenever motion is detected.
Along with a classic air raid siren in the background - I think it would stop a lot of people dead in their tracks.
tek_nic
x23
Posted 9:50 AM 14/8/08
i wonder what the cold-weather worthiness is. i could really use a light like this behind my house in the dark dark dark winters. but not if it craps out at 40 below.
x23
Posted 4:55 AM 14/8/08
FYI. The remote doesn't actually allow you to control the movement of the lights, just whether or not they're on and their strength. So if you have two annoying neighbors and don't know which one's going to act up, you want to point one each direction and turn them on as appropriate using the remote. ;)
Posted 2:00 AM 15/8/08
@: "Hummmm... then again you have pink flamingos and lawn gnomes...."
We have dead flamingos. They make those too. All black with a glow-in-the-dark skeleton. I've tucked them into the shrubbery around the pool so they catch people by surprise.
Booga. Booga.