Pretty simple... Any idea on cost/installation ease? I'm assuming u need to wire this into your car's high beam controls. Not a fun prospect for modern cars.

Those are some lousy regular high-beams. I wonder if they didn't just go from regular headlights to high-beams plus their little mod simultaneously in the video. A three stage improvement would have been more convincing.

On another note, do those sucker get hot? And how much light reflects off the car windshield back into the car?

High beams indeed. It looks as if there are 2 cars in the picture. One in front and one behind the car. Might be confusing for some motorists who plan on passing the 2nd car. But if it works, then why not? Is it legal?

@Darrone:
$1,270 for your cost question.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's not legal. Just because I have HIDs in my car (10000k), and they're illegal in my state so I can only imagine putting something this bright up in the windsheild of a car.

On the plus side, it'll really show the expression on that dear's face the split second before you pound it doing 85 mph.

totally street legal?

lame demo, not impressed, bored now

It would be much easier to see the difference / benefit without the distracting music, titles flashing all over the screen, and jerky camera angles.

Are these supposed to be a safety feature or a fashion accessory?

Awesome another set of headlights that are blinding to oncoming drivers, just what the roads need.

No way thats street legal in CA

comments go bye-bye?

I believe they would be illegal in several states. Checking...

Looks like an F'n batmobile, WANT

Was the giant "Without" text really necessary?

im looking forward to the night when the a-hole riding my bumper has those blazing into my car from behind, at least they'll be able to clearly see my finger.

I would buy that in Canada... so long as the price is reasonable. It would certainly beat the $20 fog light sets.

great... yet another set of blinding lights set damn near eye-level for me to get blinded by.

although I sure as hell want some. :D

Can I have one for my bike?

i'm sure plenty of rednecks will strap this on to their Pontiacs in the near future

@JimmiZ: They look like they form fit to the windscreen, so there is prolly no light reflecting back that you could see.

from the website:

Including transmitter, powercord, cigarette lighter hub and docking station.
Price: 1270 USD / 830 EUR / 7950 SEK Buy now

Price: $1270 USD

You can forget about it at that price. They had me at $400 but not 3x that.

Set them to strobe, and I bet you can get through traffic pretty quickly at night. (Of course, you might also go to jail.)

If truck KC lights are for "off-road use only," I don't know how these are going to stay legal for very long -- if they even are now.

@mildretard: Since they're powered by a standard 12v lighter adapter, you could run them off a standard battery pack... but for 1200 bones you could have a much, much nice setup.

I see that music being played while James Bond makes his toast in the morning.

In Washington State, it's illegal to have uncovered lights that are above your standard headlights. I imagine many states have similar laws. Drivers who have 'KC' lights on their roll bar have to keep then covered while driving here.

Also, another law statss is that drivers can only have 1 set of auxiliary lights on while driving on state highways - so even if it were legal, there's no using this at the same time as fog lights. Found that one out the hard way a couple years back.

How are these different from the "smiley face" hunting lights that used to be on top of pickups back in the era of the CB radio? It's the same concept, just a little more riced out.

I could put extra sets of fog lights all over the front of my car for the same price as one set of these things.

the reason 10,000k hid lights are illegal is that 10,000k lights arent white - in fact, they arent even really that blue - they shine more purple than anything - and thats what makes them illegal

im not sure whether these are legal or not - but if they arent - its for a different reason (like running roof-mounted foglights in the city)

Great, yet another light source for the jerks in the over-sized trucks to blind me with on city streets.

So now all those dicks that don't turn their brights off will blind you even worse. Awesome.

Legal or not, I'd mount them on the BACK window and teach impatient assholes a lesson in counter attack...

Color temperature for those lights is way off and basically ridiculous...OEM HIDs are 4300k for a reason, they are supposed to model regular white sunlight and not yellow halogen light or crazy blue disco lighting. You'd probably get pulled over for impersonating a police officer if you didn't have HIDs for your regular headlights, thereby making your "mod" look like you'd mounted blue lights to the top of your car.

Illegalities aside, there's a reason why normal headlights are mounted at the front of the car: so you won't get glare from your hood being lit up by this thing. I imagine there's also significant interior reflection off the windshield's outer surface. Pass.

How many running hours do you get before your windshield cannot handle any more concentrated heat stress and cracks in half?

You can get a nice set of proper xenon driving lamps for that kinda dough.

1.) price is wayyyy too high.

2.) Most states have Fog Light laws. In NJ, for example, it is illegal to drive with fog lights without it being foggy out. *(surprise!)

3.) This is meant to be used as an add on for high beams, who's going to see you?

4.) 10,000K HID's are like holding a candle in front of your car. These look to be around 4,300~5,000K.

Oh, and I agree completely with mounting them on the back window :)

Ya know, for $1270.00, I could buy night vision goggles and have beer money left over. That's a lot of money for some add on headlights...

@G for GRENADE: What is the point of having purple headlights? That's why it's illegal, I have 6000k and i'm wanting to go down to 5000k cause the light output is not what it could be...

You should always believe advertisements. Looks to me like they mounted a friggin spotlight on top of the car in the first-person view.

@Grifter: "It looks as if there are 2 cars in the picture. One in front and one behind the car. Might be confusing for some motorists who plan on passing the 2nd car."

Um...how do you...you know...pass a car that is coming towards you?

$1,200?!

Wow, nice. I'll take some. I could do without the Zune logo and the Lost Highway music makes me scared that Robert Blake will pop up behind me, but hey, better than hitting a deer.

FLASH ON!
... tune pops to life...

And go-cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside
And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride
Asked me if I needed a ride
But she was...
Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
She got down but she never got tired
She's gonna make it through the night
She's gonna make it through the night
But mama, that's where the fun is
But mama, that's where the fun is
Mama always told me not to look into the eye's of the sun
But mama, that's where the fun is...

*C*R*A*S*H*

@Chiper: Agreed. I can barely stand having someone behind me with regular headlights shining in my eyes - now I get to deal with even more douchebags who will keep these on regardless of how poorly lit the road is.

great more ways to blind people in front of you.

The video didn't impress me at...
The price is a serious turn off.

Items mounted to your windshield can be considered to block your field of view, which would give a cop a reason to ticket you. If they aren't somehow permanently attached (at risk of falling off while you are driving), that's another potential ticket.

After looking at the Calif VC, these lights violate section 24003: no inside mouinted driving lights, and depending on the vehicle, section 24400: lights no higher than 54 inches.

I'll pass, thanks.

@surfer88: I was thinking it was Knight Rider-esque but Bond works.

@ANoel: Win.

@Chiper:

I'm convinced there's an epidemic of "Xenon-Envy" going on where I live. I've never seen so many jerks driving around with their high-beams on. I can't believe their all "accidents". It's soooooo annoying. I'm tried of being blinded all the time by these selfish people.

Oh, and to these people: One headlamp on high-beams does not compensate for your burnt-out headlamp. Get it fixed and quit blinding me!

@1stage:

Oh...how I've thought about doing just that! I can't tell you how often, or at least a sign saying "turn your damned high-beams off!"

Every HID add-on driving light kit I've seen is greatly overpriced. I very recently bought an H4 HID "kit" from Harbor Freight (a tool warehouse type place) for less than -$150- total. It came with two bulbs, two ballasts, and mounting hardware for each ballast.
These kits are dead simple to install, just remove the old OEM H4 Halogen bulb from the reflector and re-install the new HID H4 bulb in it's place. Then you plug the ballast power leads into the old OEM bulb socket (uses the oem wiring to supply power, no wire splicing needed) and button it up, you are done, except for possibly aiming the bulbs.
Bear in mind that unless it specifies that it includes hi/lo beam switching, you will only get ONE bulb for each headlight, limiting you to low beams only.
Kits are available that include the high beams for more money (of course) but since I converted over, I find that I dont need the high beams anymore. And yes, just like in the video, the difference is that much.
I'v been told that HID bulbs make as much as 300% more light than the standard 55W/65W Halogen bulbs.