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>The human mind acclimates to improvements remarkably fast I bought a Fitorch P25 last November. A LED flashlight, runs on a single li-ion cell, costs about $7
by sbierwagen 4y ago
>The human mind acclimates to improvements remarkably fast
I bought a Fitorch P25 last November. A LED flashlight, runs on a single li-ion cell, costs about $70. Fits in the palm of your hand. It has a light output of three thousand lumens! (A T8 florescent tube, which is four feet long and runs on mains power, does about 2600 lumens.)
It's got a couple brightness modes, which it makes you step through in series, for safety. At full grunt, if you hold your hand in the beam you have to squint against the glare and you can feel heat on your hand-- all from visible-spectrum photons only, no infrared! It's bright! Of the many warnings silkscreened onto the tube, one needs to be "do not look into flashlight with remaining eye".
I keep it on my desk, to keep me humble. I remember incandescent flashlights, and I remember alkaline batteries. Will my children remember them? Of course not.