Tactical Grade Flashlight That Charges In 90 Seconds

I just heard about this one while listening to the Giz Wiz podcast over at Leo Laporte’s Twit.tv podcasting site.  This new flashlight from a company called 511Tactical uses a new kind of power storage technology called an ultra-capacitor.  Essentially it is a battery, but a battery that charges incredibly fast and does not “leak” energy during storage.  The company claims that the flashlight can be charged in under two minutes and can run for up to two hours on it’s lowest setting or 15 minutes on it’s super bright setting.

The flashlight is obviously geared toward the police and fire department market, but it is receiving a lot of press and interest from consumers as well.  At the time of the writing of this blog post the backorder ship date was already four months out.  I would love to get one of these, but at $170 it is more a luxury item at the moment.

Time For Fun!

This blog is intended to be a place to store all the cool gadgets and ideas that I hear about that don’t fit into my established blog and web site over at MusicEdMagic.com. I hear about so many cool things that have nothing to do with music and I want to share them in some way or another so this is it!