Hasta La Gadget!

Road warriors will be able to tell you that after spending a fair number of years living out of a suitcase, it can get rather tiring at the end of it all, and there is nothing better than to just sit back, relax and enjoy both your family and friends in the comfort of your own home. However, someone needs to bring home the bacon and if you have been tasked to do so, perhaps it would be prudent to make sure that you do not end up tardy in your dealings at the office. Forget about relying on the hotel’s wake-up call – you might want to settle for the $39.99 Travel Alarm Clock with Dual LED Flashlight instead.

As its name suggests, the Travel Alarm Clock with Dual LED Flashlight will not only be able to help you get out of bed with its incessant ringing, it is also a useful tool to have by the bedside in the middle of the night when you need to light up your surroundings. Say that you are looking for pair of slippers, instead of turning on the bedroom lights and disturbing your other half, you can always use the dual LED flashlight on this device. It features telling you the current time, day, date and temperature, comes with an easy-to-set alarm with snooze function and has a subtle blue backlight and built-in LED flashlight. All of it are powered by a quartet of AAA batteries.
[ Travel Alarm Clock with Dual LED Flashlight an essential traveling tool copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

Wicked Lasers has updated its Flashtorch flashlight to be lighter and longer lasting than ever before. The company claims that the Flashtorch is the world’s brightest and most powerful flashlight. I can’t verify that, though I wouldn’t be surprised if the claims hold up. After all, the Flashtorch is so bright that it can easily start a fire.

The Flashtorch has a 100W halogen lamp that emits 4,100 lumens and lasts up to 2,000 hours, a battery lasts up to 40min. per charge, and a heat-resistant lens and reflector that adjust the beam from a wide floodlight to a focused firestarter.

Put on gloves and goggles  and head to Wicked Lasers to order the Flashtorch. It’s guaranteed to burn through $200 (USD) before you even turn it on.

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Sometimes, you need light bulb. Other times, you need a flashlight. Giving you the best of both worlds is the Bulb Flashlight. As its name implies, it’s a light bulb and flashlight in one.

It sounds like a concept but it’s actually a real product that’s being sold by New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

The light bulb can last up to 60,000 hours when it’s attached to a lamp. That’s 2,500 days, 357 weeks, or close to six and a half years. Out of the lamp and as a flashlight, the device’s internal battery will give you up to three hours of illumination at a time.

These Bulb Flashlights will no doubt come in handy, especially during emergencies. You might want to install a couple of these in random lamps around your house, so you can just grab one and go when disaster strikes. Assuming you can manage to unscrew a light bulb in the dark.

The Bulb Flashlight is priced at $45(USD).

[via Gizmodo via Dvice]

In times of great emergency, a flashlight is definitely one of the essentials to have, aside from food and water. When the electricity is out and it’s night time, you might have to stay in place and wait for the sun to rise if you don’t have a torch with you. Of course, you might have one but not the right batteries to power it up, but you have the Any Battery Light to depend on in that scenario.

But what if you don’t have any good batteries at all? What then?

15-year-old Ann Makosinski probably considered that situation well and hard, and it led her to create a flashlight that only needs some body heat to function; specifically, heat from your hands. The device was made using Peltier tiles, which can create energy when one side of it is heated while the other is kept cool.

Ann put it together with a store-bought circuit, which provided enough voltage, and voila! That’s how the Hollow Flashlight came to be.

In this case, your hand provides the heat while the air inside the flashlight acts as the cooling agent. The entire thing only cost Ann $26(USD) to make!

Because of her Hollow Flashlight design, Ann is one of the finalists for Google’s global science fair.

[via ExtremeTech via Dvice]