Zak ReviewsArbitrary List of Popular Flashlights - Spring Equinox 2026 edition
I'm a bit late on this one because I've been busy with Ceilingbounce, but it's here now and I revised the enthusiast section.
Reintroducing Ceilingbounce - flashlight testing and runtime graphs for Android
In 2015, I wrote an Android app for flashlight reviewers. If you read or watch many flashlight reviews, you've probably seen graphs with a black background and a yellow line generated by Ceilingbounce. Unfortunately, the tools used to build it were abandoned by the volunteers who created them, and soon after became incompatible with the current state of Android. I couldn't release updates, and installation on new devices required developer tools. Now it's back, and more features are coming soon.
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solrizeNiteize Ziplot stayed lit 1+ year nonstop, but is now discontinued
Niteize ZipLit stayed lit 1+ year nonstop, but is now discontinued - Lemmy.World
Several years back I reviewed this tiny zipper pull light: https://lemmy.world/post/2163520 [https://lemmy.world/post/2163520] I stuck one of them into a mesh pouch where I carry stuff like toothpaste, and more than a year ago (IDK exactly when) it turned on by accident. It has stayed lit ever since, though by now the glow level is completely useless for illumination and barely viable as a locator. As someone in Bored Of The Rings said of the parody version of Gandalf’s staff lighting up in Khazad-dûm, it’s about half as bright as a dead firefly. I finally just got around to replacing the battery with one of a pack that I got on ebay (link in the original post). I also notice that the light itself is discontinued now, oh well. It does seem to me that it turns on by accident too easily. I might stick down the on-off flange with a bit of tape to prevent this. The original vendor blurb just said 24 hours of light so I might use up a battery to test that, or maybe for a week. It might be ok as a short term alternative to a tritium marker for that much time. I would say in its current state it’s way dimmer than a tritium marker whose tritium isn’t nearly depleted. It also seems to me that at under 3 grams, this is maybe the most extreme ultralight headlamp out there, if you stick it to your forehead with a piece of tape. It DOES put out enough light to be useful in that setup, for limited notions of “useful”. You can navigate a dark room without bumping into stuff, you can see near-distances enough to change the battery in your main light without having to fumble around by feel, and so on. Since the light is just a direct drive SMT led and a CR927 cell, it could be that something similar with a CR1616 and a resistor (or go big and use a CR2032) could be used as an H3 substitute that would last for months.
War and Peas – Funny Comics – Funny Webcomic
Now listed available for sale - Wurkkos TS26 Anduril
MikkoA blast from the past!
If you were a kid in the 80s Finland, you might get a flashback from this flashlight.
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