New Wind-Up LED Flashlight: The Illuminator

by Justin Thomas on July 5, 2005

illuminator_small.jpgI have a “forever flashlight” — the kind that you shake for 20 seconds and get 5-10 minutes of light. This flashlight seems to be an improvement on that idea. It uses three ultra-bright LEDs. One minute of wind-up provides up to one hour of light. It’s available from Amazon.

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Keith July 5, 2005 at 11:58 am

They should make more electronic products like this (cell phones, mp3 players). =]

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Rory July 6, 2005 at 2:05 pm

LED’s require very little power. May be hard to power anything that requires more energy. (many watches already use a similar mechanism)

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Jera July 12, 2005 at 11:01 am

I bet the battery companies would hate it if they made more stuff like this! ;)

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dave January 26, 2006 at 11:43 pm

I got this light a few weeks ago, still havnt had to crank it up, does this have a battery or a capacitor(s ) ??? I wanna take it apart and look ,dave

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