Nebo Hands-Free Work Light
The Nebo Hands-Free Work Light clips over your ear in the style of a Bluetooth headset, recharges using two lithium-ion batteries, has both a white and green (night-vision-preserving) LED, and costs just $13 from the manufacturer. The earpiece is reversible and it looks like the end bit can be tweaked exactly to point where you need it. Looks handy!
Product Page [NeboFlashlight.com via Toolmonger]
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Great, now you can look like a double douche bag with your work light on one ear and bluetooth on the other!
lord. GREEN is the color MOST LIKELY to COMPLETELY DESTROY your eyes adaptation to the darkness, being the color your eyes are most sensitive to. if you need to be able to see in the dark (say while operating a telescope, for example), while also needing to read (star charts or whatever) then you need a RED LIGHT for that.
this is the third product I've seen claiming to have night-vision-preserving GREEN light. THIS IS FALSE ADVERTISING.
why are most 'night vision' goggles green then? because they aren't trying to preserve your dark adaptation, and because, like i said, green is the easiest color for humans to see. i guess the only reason you'ld buy this product is to pretend that you had $400 night vision goggles...just without the 'stealth' feature...
i'm filing this under 'people are really f*ck*ng stupid and will buy anything' , along with the glossy computer screen and binoculars with metallic red lenses.
They gave these away free with Rice Crispies and Froot Loops this summer for the Shreck promotion! I got a yellow one with puss in boots inside of my box.
Glossy computer screens drive me crazy!!
Didn't we go through all that, moving into "non-glare screens" 15 years ago??
sorry for the off-topic rant.
I got something very similar a couple years ago. No rechargables though, and it was a blue LED.
I used it infrequently until the power went out for a day. Then it was fantastic. The light points where ever you turn your head and both hands are free.
[Posted by Daemon, who can never log in for reasons unknown]
You can get these, or others pretty much just like them in Radioshack (which, in my area, has been bought out and renamed as 'The Source').
They make awesome reading lights.
remember when this was called a "headlamp" and came out years ago without making you look like you were pretending to have a bluetooth headset?
Mine only cost $3.99. plus it came with cereal. Viva Shrek!
While I agree with the recent posting regarding green light and night vision, let me fill you in on its real purpose. This product is intended for indoor gardeners wishing to visit their grow rooms during their plants dark cycle. As plant do not respond to green light, there is no risk of interupting their photocycle.