http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/ Engadget Comments for Tactical flashlight records late night jungle excursions http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/
Upside down? That's what software is for.]]>Apr 3rd 2009 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 4th 2009 1:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/
And now you get video of sky ground sky ground. ]]>Apr 3rd 2009 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/The discovery of electicity and batteries in the late 18th/early 19th century might have helped cause that change.]]>Apr 3rd 2009 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/I use it in paranormal investigating and it's very good
the image is a little grainy, but it automatically switches the ir lights on when light levels are too low for normal recording.]]>Apr 3rd 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.theonion.com/content/news/brookstone_scientists_10_years]]>Apr 3rd 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/Apr 3rd 2009 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/
The CR123s are good, inasmuch as they're lithium, unlike any C or D cells I know of; they have much higher current capability and longer life than alkalines. In AA, alkalines are predominant, but lithiums are available, too, so that's the only real contender. (There are virtually no A-cell flashlights -- A being the length of a AA, but substantially wider; some CR123 lights can be used with A cells.)

The reason high-powered flashlights have pathetic runtimes compared to 8 hours on C cells is that the "normal" flashlights (yes, even your 1W LED) have pathetic brightness. You can have good runtime or good brightness, but you don't get both in anything smaller than a 3D body. (Incidentally, there are flashlights around that size using about ten CR123s, and getting either high output and moderate runtime, or moderate output and long runtime, depending on what bulb you use.) The actual capacity at low rates (that is, rates alkies can handle) is pretty much comparable.

The real answer for most people is to use rechargeables, in _whatever_ size you use, and high-powered LEDs instead of incandescents. The cell size matters a lot less then. (My P7 Mag is a 4D, and runs for 190 minutes at constant brightness on NiMH rechargeables, and then for another hour or two at progressively dropping light level. It lasts _five_ minutes on alkalines before the brightness starts falling off.) But if you're stuck on primaries (as most casual flashlight users are for no reason, and _some_ professional users with very good reason), alkalines really can't hold a candle to lithiums, so C cells are a mistake for anything meant to be bright. A slew of AAs (with the recommendation to use only Lithium AAs or rechargeables) or CR123s are really much better.]]>Apr 3rd 2009 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/
The above comment was _intended_ as a reply to Chris.]]>Apr 3rd 2009 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.gadgetreview.com/2009/01/gadget-review-swann-surveillance-flashlight-dvr.html]]>Apr 3rd 2009 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/tactical-flashlight-records-late-night-jungle-excursions/
Peeping Toms would never want to be discovered. Unless of course they mod it for infrared...but then, why not just use a camera.

Seriously though it looks bulky and unbalanced. I can't see any practical use for it. Might as well give the security guards a camera hat or a set of Street BJ glasses.]]>Apr 3rd 2009 3:42PM