Wind-powered light for cars is useless, but has fins

Slapping the "Car Decorative Wind Power LED Lamp" on your vehicle will net you two things: an increase of glowing red and blue lights, certain to fool only the most rheumy-eyed driver that you're a tiny, whistling cop; and a sure decrease in the resale value (not to mention drag efficiency) of your car. It's $5, plus $5 shipping. It's horrible, of course, but has a certain something, if only because it reminds me of those sorely missed fins and wings of Jet Age automobiles.

Car Decorative Wind Power LED Lamp catalog page [SourcingMap.com via Red Ferret]

[#1 posted by Enochrewt , September 19, 2008 7:52 AM]

Thanks to some asshole car thief, my car's resale value is negligable. At $5 a pop, it might be cheap enough to literally cover my car in these, though red ones wouldn't work. Wanna see a Civic that gets 13 MPG?

[#2 posted by mujadaddy , September 19, 2008 8:20 AM]

They need to make car bodies that look like that.

[#3 posted by dculberson , September 19, 2008 8:34 AM]

I suggest people get the real thing instead. Cars need more rocket hood ornaments.

[#4 posted by huzubu , September 19, 2008 9:13 AM]

Isn't it illegal in most places to have red and blue lights on the top of your car unless you're an emergency vehicle?

[#5 posted by Drew Blood , September 19, 2008 10:36 AM]

I have an intense desire to put some of these on a red bicycle!

[#6 posted by Thinkerer , September 19, 2008 5:54 PM]

Unfortunately if you dissect these I'll bet that instead of a clever little generator you find a couple of button cells and a wind operated switch,like most of this kind of craptastic stuff.

[#7 posted by weedeek , September 20, 2008 1:17 PM]

I think Dan Dare had an input to the design of these - cool they ain't!

[#8 posted by The Life Of Bryan , September 22, 2008 9:58 AM]

I'm thinking one of these may be just what my otherwise mundane bicycle helmet as been craving.