Sanyo Eneloop Lamp Charges Wirelessly, Doubles As A Flashlight
Fueled by the original rechargeable batteries from 2005, Sanyo’s consistently strange eneloop (on-a-loop) line keeps on growing: next up is the eneloop Lamp, a vaselike, wirelessly chargeable table lamp that turns into a flashlight when picked up.
The lamp is intended to spend most of its time on a wireless charging stand, which not unlike the Palm’s Touchstone or, more precisely, Sanyo’s wireless eneloop Wiimote charger. There, it can be switched between the brighter white light mode and a low-draw blue, or “Healing Light,” mode. The stand feeds power into the unit’s two AA batteries, which power the lamp when it strays from home. Sanyo’s press release says it’ll switch modes when it’s turned horizontal, mentioning that there’s some kind of accelerometer, although it seems like a simple activate-on-disconnect system would work just fine.
At first, I had trouble imagining too many uses for a lamp/torch hybrid, but then it hit me: midnight pooping. For that, this lamp is genius. No price or domestic availability info is available yet; Japan will see a launch on September 11th. [Akihabara News]
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The ribbed and flavored editions will be coming out next year.
@torpemonday: Agreed, looks more like something you can take a hit out of... Promptly cheeto-binge and pass out.
tehsquish - Still plays Ultima Online
Taking bets on how long before someone gets that thing stuck in an orifice?
Nowell
I think I saw this on sale at Love Shack...
Christo Acosta
Bong 2.0?
Leonce
@winshape: Yeah to be honest I don't know. I also only own the bundle from Costco but I do like the fact that you can turn AA's into D's and stuff.
Purple Monkey Dishwasher
@Chris Coonradt aka Pobregizmo: here, we are, also by oxo:
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same concept, different shape is all.
I've seen one of these before, let me see if I can find it...
@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Is it possible to buy the batteries in a regular brick and mortar store? The only place I've seen them was in Costco, and they only sell the bundle pack. I haven't seen them anywhere else except for Amazon...and given my poor luck with Amazon lately, I'd rather avoid them.
winshape
Reminds me of the Luau lamp by OXO
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sighlent
@Jestermeister: Is it wrong that I thought the exact same thing?
@nutbastard: I disagree that a disconnect system would work "just fine". As I am in agreement that it would be useful for "midnight pooping", I like the idea of having the lamp mode available away from the stand. A soft blue glow would be the right poop mood lighting.
@Bigbadbikernerd: And it even looks like the basic diagrams of throat-to-stomach inside the human body. A subliminal inducer of digestive processes.
Jestermeister
@Wilky_McBadass: I agree, if you were hitting them in the vagina.
Jestermeister
I agree with the midnight pooping usefulness. The blue light would be soothing and help move the process along.
@Wilky_McBadass: Or a ginormous bong...
torpemonday
"Sanyo's press release says it'll switch modes when it's turned horizontal, mentioning that there's some kind of accelerometer, although it seems like a simple activate-on-disconnect system would work just fine."
If it were a disconnect-activated thing, there's a couple ways of doing it - the wrong way, which would be to have it detect an absence of induction - which would default to flashlight mode in the event of an outage - or the right way, using a magnet and a hall effect sensor.
For the way they say it actually will be, you don't really need an accelerometer, just a mercury switch.
any of the four holes in the middle picture.
iatacs19
@Wilky_McBadass: You mean like a lamp?
reminds me of something that you would hit people with
Wilky_McBadass
I love the eneloop batteries, not sure about this lamp though
Purple Monkey Dishwasher
Where do i put the weed?
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