Jacket cuff lights create illumination on demand

Flashlights have certainly found their way into unusual locales, but a recent invention places light in a place that could prove handy to nearly anyone out on the town. The aptly-named jacket cuff lights add bright beams of white light to both of your sleeves, and since they're wired up in a series, you aren't apt to activate your high beams without intending to do so. Relying on ten white LEDs, a pair of small PC mounting boards, four small pushbuttons, a couple of 10-ohm resistors, a bit of cabling, rechargeable battery pack, and the usual handyman skills with a soldering iron, this project doesn't look too intense for the amateur to handle. Still, the creator has certainly made things easy on those of you who'd rather pay someone else to get things going, as you can pick up the kit of necessary items for a smooth $20 if you so choose. Alright, you know the drill, hit the read link for a detailed video demonstration.

[Via MAKE]

[manny @ Mar 24th 2007 5:36AM]

"Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids"

[Aaron @ Mar 24th 2007 6:03AM]

That's the first thing I thought when I saw that picture... Followed by "that dude is not a kid".

[st3v3n @ Mar 24th 2007 5:57AM]

GOB would love these.

[mondo1287 @ Mar 24th 2007 10:28AM]

GOB would be all over this.

Data from The Goonies would be all over this as well. "Bully Blinders! Only problem, batteries don't last so long."

[MitchFan @ Mar 24th 2007 10:25AM]

Natetrue is THE MAN when it comes to this stuff. This is the same guys who created the time fountain: http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/09/wow-your-friends-with-your-very-own-time-fountain/

[marcoemerson @ Mar 24th 2007 10:34AM]

No, go ahead, light those up in the dark. You won't look like a sexual predator at all.

[Patiwat @ Mar 24th 2007 12:19PM]

Thems repulsor rays!

[RijilV @ Mar 24th 2007 2:43PM]

sigh, ravers.

[kuzu-b @ Mar 24th 2007 2:53PM]

It's the final countdown!

[scarfnbarf @ Mar 24th 2007 3:04PM]

Whew, glad I wore my hi-tek, LED powered Members only jacket. Now how do I get out of this closet?
Better to have the light come from nostrils. They keep your hands free and usually point where u are looking.

[Genome @ Mar 24th 2007 3:23PM]

Its kinda cool, although I think this would be useful for espionage/spy types, more than anything else. Wouldn't it make more sense for the lights to be on the back of the hand instead of shining into the fingers? I suppose then it wouldn't look like you have supar powarz. Intense!

[Kyle Hall @ Mar 24th 2007 5:28PM]

arrested development anyone? G.O.B. would love it!!

[Matt @ Mar 24th 2007 5:35PM]

Sites been engadgeted

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[brian @ Mar 24th 2007 7:26PM]

how do you wash a jacket with led lights installed?

[n2 @ Mar 25th 2007 2:04PM]

Ranks up there with shoe lights from Married with Children.

[Z @ Mar 27th 2007 11:28PM]

Guy in photo above: "Hi. Now watch closely. Abra-cadabra. Did you see what I just did? I made my sleeves light up and "poof", my chances of ever dating a woman disappeared."