This Flashlight Will Still Let You See the Back of Your PC in 20 Years
This Flashlight Will Still Let You See the Back of Your PC in 20 Years
Posted 11/12/2009 at 7:00am
| by Paul Lilly
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With somewhere between $250 and $300 to play with, there are a lot of PC parts and peripherals you could buy. A Core i5 or i7 processor, for example. You could upgrade your videocard, replace your motherboard, slap an SSD into your rig, or even buy a bigger LCD monitor. Or you could buy a flashlight. Say what?
When the mPower Emergency Illuminator starts shipping in March of 2010, it's going to cost as much as three Benjamins. But before you dismiss it altogether, let's go over what it can do.
Other than its unique aesthetics, the mPower's biggest trick is battery life. One of the battery tubes holds a pair of your standard CR123 batteries, but should those fail, another tube contains what the Porsche Design Studio is calling an OnCommand Reserve Battery. The company says the reserve power gives its flashlight a minimum 20-year shelf life and will deliver "power on command when and where you need it."
The reserve power isn't rechargeable and will wear down when you use it, but the company claims it won't degrade from sitting unused. And should you ever need to replace it, another backup battery will run $25.
But wait, there's more! The mPower also comes with a built-in USB port for charging your smartphone and other digital devices. It will first tap into the CR123 batteries to do this, provided there's enough juice in tank, and only sip from the battery backup if needed.
Pretty slick, but is it worth $300? Hit the jump and tell us what you think.
Image Credit: mPower via CNet
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searchmycountry
July 14, 2010 at 2:20am
I bought China Led Flashlight in very reasonable price its working very good.
Shims11
December 29, 2009 at 10:25pm
You lose arguments with inanimate objects.
You have to hold onto the lawn to keep from falling off the earth.
Your job is interfering with your drinking.
Your doctor finds traces of blood in your alchohol stream.
Your career won't progress beyond Senator from Massachusetts.
The back of your head keeps getting hit by the toilet seat.
You sincerely believe alchohol is the elusive 5th food group.
24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case - coincidence? I think not!
Two hands and just one mouth.. - now THAT'S a drinking problem!
You can focus better with one eye closed.
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aviaggio
November 12, 2009 at 3:09pm
Hey, for those that like this item I have a few new product ideas I'll like to sell you:
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croman4872
November 12, 2009 at 11:05am
That's ridiculous. But IF I Were looking to buy a $300 flashlight, I'd probably go with this little beast..
http://www.wickedlasers.com/lasers/The_Torch-74-41.html
at least with this I could have some fun...
pastorbob
November 12, 2009 at 9:17am
the worthless overpriced crap that some manufacturers come up with. If the flashlight lasted 1000 years it is still priced about twenty times what it is worth. You'd have to be pretty gullible to spend $300.00 on a flashlight no matter how much money you have to throw away.
politik
November 12, 2009 at 8:43am
I'll pass on this one. Instead I'll just buy a $10 flashlight every year for the next 30 years.
worm8199
November 12, 2009 at 8:28am
For that amount of money, you could go to your local hardware store, get a nice LED Maglite and enough batteries to last a lot longer than 20 years. And the Maglite can be used to beat the bejesus out of a would be robber!
nforce
November 12, 2009 at 8:27am
I think i would take the brightest AA flashlight in the world. the FENIX TK40 and it's half the price.
Bender2000
November 12, 2009 at 7:01am
I have a Porsche Design lighter that never needs batteries and will light on demand. You can also light a torch or a campfire should you need more illumination. Or a cigar if you need a break. Looks the same too. $80
dag1992
November 12, 2009 at 9:29am
Completely irrelevant, but that's Ayrton Senna as your picture, you get a +1 in my book.
Caboose
November 12, 2009 at 7:23am
Ah yes, but instead of replacing batteries, you need to refil the lighter fluid.
On an aside, the flashlight is safer to keep in your house than lighter fluid! ;)
But still, $300 is far too expensive. It's all due to the Porsche name. Just like the Acer Ferrari laptops! All because of the name...
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
Belboz99
November 12, 2009 at 5:50am
An LED flashlight with a crank handle will never run out of power, provided you never run out of arms! :P
Dan O.
Pentium 0
November 12, 2009 at 12:55pm
yes they will. 99.9% are complete junk. The gears get stripped pretty quickly. The batteries inside most are charged with no regulation circuitry and have no overcharge/over-discharge protection. Ruins them quite promptly.
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