Outside the Box Thinking celebrates technology that both breaks the rules of convention and that, for one reason or another, will not be patented. Today's featured innovation meets both those requirements and could, for the right person, be an ideal Christmas gift!
Let's start with the basics. It's a battery-powered, handheld flashlight. Something that most people will be very familiar with because the basic flashlight design has been around for decades. If you close your eyes and think of a flashlight, you'll almost certainly envision a small cylindrical tube that easily fits in your hand, which has a glass-covered lamp on one end, is hollow except for the batteries that power it, and which you operate with switch on the outside of the tube.
So when we tell you today's featured innovation is a double-barreled flashlight, that description alone should clue you in that something very different is happening with this device. And that's before we even mention this flashlight, which has been inspired by the design of binoculars, uses lasers to project a "highly focused, ultra-long-range beam" that outperforms today's conventional flashlight technology.
And then it's also waterproof and very damage resistant.
What's more, it's a Kickstarter project that's still in its fundraising phase, but which has already surpassed it's funding goal, so it will be made. Here's their video pitch:
If all goes as its creators plan, it will ship in December 2025. As far as we can tell, the downside is that it's expensive. Even so, the Kickstarter project's funding phase has another two weeks to go and, at this writing, it's still possible to get in on the early bird specials. Which are still expensive, but are a big discount to what the creators indicate would be the regular retail price. If you could buy it in a store.
That's how outside the box this flashlight is.
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