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Designed By Porsche, This $US250 Torch Has A 20-Year Battery
1:36AM Danny Allen | The mPower Emergency Illuminator combines a beautiful design (courtesy of the Porsche Design Studio) with new battery technology. One tube holds two CR123 batteries, while the other stores a Lithium Reserve Battery that has a minimum shelf-life of 20 years. More »
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Blackfire Clamplight Should Be More Than Just A Flashlight
5:30AM Joanna Stern | After confusing that thing for Wall-E’s eye and pinching myself to stop thinking about how cute it is, I learned that the Blackfire Clamplight is, well as its name implies, a flashlight that clamps to things and pivots. More »
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11:30AM Rosa Golijan | The LX2 produces 200 lumens of light, about 10 times that of ordinary D-cell flashlights, and is the first commercially available LED flashlight to do so. Long-lasting, bright, and as a bonus, the press release for it is almost arousing. More »
SureFire’s LX2 Is The First 200 Lumens LED Flashlight
11:30AM Rosa Golijan | The LX2 produces 200 lumens of light, about 10 times that of ordinary D-cell flashlights, and is the first commercially available LED flashlight to do so. Long-lasting, bright, and as a bonus, the press release for it is almost arousing. More »
Design
Sanyo Eneloop Lamp Charges Wirelessly, Doubles As A Flashlight
3:20AM John Herrman | 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. More »
Phones
Nokia 1661 has AMAZING LED Built InTo Top of Phone
8:10AM Adrian Covert | Like computer viruses, this NOKIA 1661 phone will naturally attract itself to old people because it’s cheap, ridiculously simple and has an AMAZING LED FLASHLIGHT built into it. More »
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Transforming Flashlight Looks Like It Sings, Dances, Kills You at Night
11:45PM Jesus Diaz | For $US10, this Wild Planet LiteFormz Transforming Flashlight–that goes from regular torch, to walking funny man, to menacing scorpion–seems like a total bargain. Too bad it’s not an actual robot. [Buzzillions via Boing Boing Gadgets] More »
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The Multi-Function Tape Measure Will Change Things
5:40AM Mark Wilson | There are gadgets, and then there are gadgets. And we could write about this Multi-Function Tape Measure in italics all day long. More »
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Can The World’s Most Powerful Flashlight Light My Cigarette?
4:30AM John Mahoney | Among the many wonders at Gizmodo Gallery, we’ve got a couple Wicked Lasers Torches to play with–the world’s most powerful, nearly weapons-grade flashlights that put out light so intense it can burn paper. So when it came time for a cigarette, we knew what to reach for…
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HydroStar SUB Flashlight With Dynamo-Powered LEDs, Lasers Lightning Review
7:00AM Sean Fallon | The Gadget: The HydroStar SUB flashlight is billed as an ideal emergency tool or a handy device to take on your outdoor adventures. The dynamo-powered flashlight features single, dual and strobe LED modes along with a “snake eyes” laser pointer (it can even charge your USB gadgets). Plus, the SUB is shock resistant and submersible up to 10 metres—so it should be rugged enough to handle the elements. More »
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