By far the biggest advantages of the 12V Spotlight, a portable flashlight that snugly fits into the cigarette lighter of your car, are its rechargeable battery and very bright bulb. You don’t have to spend money to buy replacements, and a great way to blind yourself is to shine light directly ...

Grabbing and holding small components with tweezers is hard enough in good light, but if you’re working in a poorly lit and confined space don’t worry about grabbing the flashlight — grab a pair of illuminated tweezers instead. Push the on/off switch on General’s Illuminated ...

Never clutch your tiny flashlight in your teeth again—the Magnetic Light Mine sticks to metal surfaces, keeping a light where you need to get stuff done. The nubby little ball, about the size of a golf ball, is covered in magnets. As long as you have a metal surface handy, you can find an angl...

On January 18 in the post, HOBGOBLINS, I worried whether I'd ever remember to replace the bulb for my bedroom night light. Praise Gosh, It's just the kind of bulb we all used to use in the "big" Xmas tree strings, though it's not colored, and it fits in the bottom portion of a regular lamp. I finall...

Have you been burned by the power going out in the middle of the night and screwing up your alarm clock?  Yeah, most alarm clocks have a battery backup, but in my experience it’s always dead when you need it.  Plug the PowerOUT! from Reliance Controls into a spare outlet and when the power f...

With no warning or explanation, toss one of these Striker ball lights to somebody and ask them what it is. We got quite a few entertaining answers right out of the box, everything from disco ball and mini-land mine to one horrified person who dropped it immediately and scolded us for tossing them a ...

LED seems to be the solution to every light related problems. SHINE! This 100 LED Aluminum Flashlight is a powerful, rugged and reliable LED flashlight with 100 super bright white LEDs and features an anodized hard aluminum shell and a rubber handle for anon-slip grip! It has a convenient on/off rub...

Filed under: Fun, Social Software, iPhone No, not that kind of pee. Tweetie, a popular iPhone Twitter app, has introduced something they're calling the App Store Popularity EnhancEr (PEE, for short.) It's a scheme to make Tweetie more useful, while also improving its rankings in the iTunes app store...

Filed under: Humor, iPhone, App Store Tweetie, my current favorite Twitter client for the iPhone, has just been updated to version 1.2 [iTunes link]. While the update offers a slew of enhancements, new features and improved functionality, what makes this release memorable and unique is the sly dose ...

So we're in the middle of a blackout here in the Big Smoke. Which blows cause the temperature is, like, -29C with the windchill. That's -20F for you Imperialists out there. Bloody cold. By the grace o god I didn't lose power, something that I lorded over Bucky this morning. Strangely, my declaration...