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    Designed by Porsche, This $250 Flashlight Has a 20 Year Battery

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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    11/12/09

    In reply to Designed by Porsche, This $250 Flashlight Has a 20 Year Battery
    That's great, but... my $5 flashlight has a handle on the bottom that flips out, and if you crank it for a few seconds you have a half hour of light. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    11/12/09

    In reply to Designed by Porsche, This $250 Flashlight Has a 20 Year Battery
    A 20-year battery, and a lifetime supply of ugly. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    11/12/09

    @AmishJohn: flashlights don't need to be pretty as long as they shed light on the pretty things. 20 years of no battery purchases certainly would be worth it to me, but I won't buy one to be honest. It IS a 250.00 flashlight after all. ;-) #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    11/12/09

    @Faslane's avatar is squished: Read the article. The battery only lasts 20 years if you never, ever use it. It's like my car that gets a million miles per gallon as long as the engine is never started. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    11/12/09

    @AmishJohn: oops. RTFA to me. Faslane FAIL! LOL

    cheers ;-) #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/12/09

    In reply to Designed by Porsche, This $250 Flashlight Has a 20 Year Battery

    I'm so pissed at that flashlight that I wanna go cut someone with the Porsche Type 301 knives! #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    11/12/09

    In reply to Designed by Porsche, This $250 Flashlight Has a 20 Year Battery
    ........the battery doesn't LAST for 20 years of use...Rather, when not connected to terminals, the battery will still be able to provide power 20 years in the FUTURE as they figured out some way to eliminate erroneous power dissipation. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    11/12/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Actually, there is a mechanically actuated membrane that separates the electrolytes until needed. This membrane is what gives the battery a 20 year shelf life. Once activated, you get typical battery life.

    [finance.yahoo.com]
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    11/12/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton:

    If only some people would read the article.. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    11/12/09

    @bselnick: What the hell...Are my speaking Greek? What I said AGREES with what you said. Your explanation of there being a "mechanically actuated membrane that separates the electrolytes until needed" merely agrees with my less specific "they figured out some way". And my "....the battery doesn't LAST for 20 years of use" agrees with your "....what gives the battery a 20 year shelf life". #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    11/12/09

    @I_have_something_to_say: Read my response above. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    11/12/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Sadly, the ability to read does not confer comprehension, nor the ability to make inferences based on context clues. The upshot is that the rampant act-first-look-later conclusion-jumping (typically involving an egregious sens eof self-righteousness) gives us plenty of fodder for irony-based meta-llurgy with which to catch them at the bottom. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    11/12/09

    @met2art: Okkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk then. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    11/12/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: "Designed by Porsche, This $250 Flashlight Has a 20 Year Battery" - My beef. In case any of you didn't implicitly understand that. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    11/12/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: that was a hilarious sequence of comments... you just made my day #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    11/12/09

    @uttc16: Thank you kind sir. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    11/12/09

    In reply to Designed by Porsche, This $250 Flashlight Has a 20 Year Battery
    That's a poor design, from an ergonomic, engineering, and cost perspective. And the flashlight doesn't stay on for 20 years, it just supposedly stays available for 20 years in case you want to use it. I'd much rather have a $5 motion-induction-recharged flashlight that will last 100 years... oh wait, I do. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Designed by Porsche, This $250 Flashlight Has a 20 Year Battery
    Porsche to economy: Screw you. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    Image of Scratic Scratic
    11/12/09

    In reply to Designed by Porsche, This $250 Flashlight Has a 20 Year Battery

    Sorry, I've resolved not to spend more than $70 on a flashlight unless it can cut off Ponda Baba's arm in a bar fight. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    Image of OtisCabeal OtisCabeal
    11/12/09

    @Scratic: Its a more eligant flashlight for a more civilized age
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/12/09

    In reply to Designed by Porsche, This $250 Flashlight Has a 20 Year Battery
    I can not see any flashflight now without thinking its actually a Fleshlight. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    Image of Danny Allen Danny Allen
    11/12/09

    @Curves: lol #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    Image of met2art met2art
    11/12/09

    @Curves: You know, I thought the same damn thing when it came up on my screen... "20 year Porsche Fleshlight? Hmmm...*click*" Just imagine my disappointment. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    11/12/09

    @met2art: Imagine Mr Frucci's disappointment. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    11/12/09

    @B-low: Poor Frooch... enduring the endless Fleshlight jokes. I say bravo, to the bold Frucci, for having the courage to do that article, jokesters be damned! *bows head respectfully* #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    11/12/09


    @met2art: Courage would be laying with this hot puppy. Incidentally also designed by Porsche.
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    Image of bleek bleek
    11/12/09

    @B-low: He could cheat and insert a fleshlight into that hole :< #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    11/12/09


    @B-low: Don't judge me!
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    11/12/09

    @bleek: I just snorted coffee out my nose after seeing that photochop. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    11/12/09

    @Curves: Hey, I tried. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    11/12/09

    @bleek: Yes, you did and it earned you a heart click. Well played, Sir. #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    11/12/09

    @Curves: Well thank you miss, I'd tip my hat to you, but it would probably fall off and it's really hard to put on :< #mpoweremergencyilluminator
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    Image of frigg frigg
    09/18/09

    In reply to For a 200 Lumens LED Flashlight, the SureFire's LX2 Is Oddly Sensual

    Yeah, it talks a good talk, but when you actually take a look at it, kinda small, doncha think? Maybe it just got fished out of a pool.
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    09/18/09

    In reply to For a 200 Lumens LED Flashlight, the SureFire's LX2 Is Oddly Sensual
    Oh no, you’re not the only one who heard pillow talk. I’d like to hear more about it’s smooth yet functional grip that wont tear off my clothing.
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    06/30/09

    In reply to Sanyo Eneloop Lamp Charges Wirelessly, Doubles as a Flashlight
    "Sanyo's press release says it'll switch modes when it's turned horizontal, mentioning that there's some kind of accelerometer, although it seems like a simple activate-on-disconnect system would work just fine."


    If it were a disconnect-activated thing, there's a couple ways of doing it - the wrong way, which would be to have it detect an absence of induction - which would default to flashlight mode in the event of an outage - or the right way, using a magnet and a hall effect sensor.


    For the way they say it actually will be, you don't really need an accelerometer, just a mercury switch.

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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    05/22/09

    In reply to Energizer Hard Case Tactical Flashlight Shoots R, G, B and Infrared
    Looks like it's made by Playschool.
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    05/22/09

    In reply to Energizer Hard Case Tactical Flashlight Shoots R, G, B and Infrared
    FALCON PUNCH!!!!!
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/22/09

    @BergenCountyJC: Show me your moves!
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/22/09

    In reply to Energizer Hard Case Tactical Flashlight Shoots R, G, B and Infrared
    Pardon my ignorance, but what are those colored LEDs actually used for? Other than to activate "Bosskev Vision", that is:
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    05/22/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Impromptu disco sessions.
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    05/22/09

    @USB_Humping_Dog: @Dan Fox: @rDub: Oh I see. Thanks.
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    05/22/09

    In reply to Energizer Hard Case Tactical Flashlight Shoots R, G, B and Infrared
    Can you mix the LED's up to enable you to follow blood trails? I mean, in case you ever have to find a wounded animal. Seriously. I in no way would need this to track someone who cut themselves escaping from the dungeon.
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