Gizmodo: Maglite

DIY Overclocked Flashlight—An Arsonist's Dream

Travis Hudson — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:38:19 EST

Got an arsonist in your family and have no idea what to get him or her this holiday season? Why not build an overclocked Maglite capable of actually burning objects? This Maglite hybrid uses a Osram Sylvania light bulb "overclocked" to 80 times its standard luminosity. Power the sucker up with 12 1200mV NiMH batteries and you have a Christmas tree fire waiting to happen. – Travis Hudson

Killer Flashlight Will Burn Your House Down [CrunchGear]

4-LED Maglites Coming In May

johnb — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:55:14 EDT

Reader Brian sent an email to Maglite inquiring about their 4-LED series that was promised "in 2006." The result was an actual email sent by a human being rather than the canned ejaculate of a mailbot. Let's listen in:

Here is the schedule we plan to use to deliver our Mag-LED lights: 2, 3 & 4 cell D Maglites in Black will be available in May or June LED upgrade kits for the D cells will be available in June or July 2 and 3 cell AA Mag-LEDs will be available in July or August No upgrade kits will be produced for the AA and AAA lights. The new products will be found in most Hardware and discount stores.

Very nice.

Product Page [Maglite]

Bulb-To-LED Conversion For MAG

gizmodo.com — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 11:24:46 EST

You may (or may not) remember when we reported that MAG was going to release LED-based flashlights. Well if you or Johnny Law just can't wait and demand the battery life and power of LEDs, this is for you. TerraLUX (hmm, perhaps they made the Luxor's huge beam? That's where the Gizmodo-ites are staying for CES, BTW. Stop by and ask for VV cause he'll be taking clients all week!) has released a replacement LED conversion for Maglites that use AA or AAA batteries. The brightness and ability to focus the beam will stay the same and no mods are needed, so put that soldering iron down. A replacement bulb that uses an LED is $20, but you know you want to be the first kid on the block with the LED Maglite.

TerraLUX LED Replacement Bulb [Cool Tools]

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

Gina Trapani — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:00:00 EST

This week at Lifehacker: Take your data home for the holidays. While you're there, crack the neighbors' wifi. Spraypaint the guts of that old computer into Christmas tree decorations. Build a photo lamp from a Mag-Lite. Bend web pages to your will with our favorite Greasemonkey scripts.

HTTP, FTP, VNC, oh my! Lifehacker's got your home server needs covered for remote access to your movies and music and other, ahem, files while you're home for the holidays.

While you're there, find nearby wifi, sniff packets and crack passwords with these essential wireless networking tools. Well ok, don't actually break into people's private networks - but you sure could help the 'rents secure their own network from clowns like you.

Short on holiday decorations? Bare tree and tons of debris laying around the house? Kill two birds with one can of spraypaint. A nice gold sheen can turn the most common household object into a festive decoration fit for hanging next to the mistletoe.

Some paper, foil, tape and a Mag-Lite's all you need to build your own photo-lamp, perfectly portable for photographing small objects up close.

Oh Javascript, is there nothing you can't do? Strip ads from Google search results, auto-link URLs on web pages, and add a Delete button and saved searches to Gmail using the Greasemonkey Firefox extension and our picks of favorite user scripts.

Lifehacker's Power User column appears every Wednesday on Gizmodo.