What to get for the person who has everything

[layla]

Bet you they don't have one of THESE.

It's a radio! It's a TV! It's a ... flashlight? Also a mosquito repeller and emergency siren.

All I want to know is, why doesn't it have a DVD player? What kind of lame survival equipment doesn't have a DVD player?

I saw them in a department store electronics section while doing Christmas shopping tonight, and when I got home I had to look 'em up on the Internet and share the fun. And here I used to think the world's most amusing piece of survival gear was the solar-powered flashlight. (Yes, they exist.)

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If it doesn't have a reusable toothpick, its worthless to me.

[neosquirrel.livejournal.com]

What? No survival knife? What about flares and salt and pepper shakers?

And can you kill a man with it by beating him mercilessly when the food runs out and he looks like a hamburger making cracks about your girl?

Re: If it doesn't have a reusable toothpick, its worthless to me.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

And can you kill a man with it by beating him mercilessly when the food runs out and he looks like a hamburger making cracks about your girl?

Then you need a Sterno-powered grill, which I notice it also doesn't have.

Solar Flashlight

[vogelein.livejournal.com]

Well, those sound horrendously dorky until you realize that if you're out in the middle of the sticks, far far away from even a gas station, and you're out of d-cells, and you can get your flashlight to work again just by remembering to leave it on your windowsill -- it suddenly becomes a lot less dumb. ;) I'm actually looking into investing in a few of these (http://store.sundancesolar.com/sorelasl.html) for use at our family's cabin, so that we don't have to worry about kerosene fire hazards, running out of mantles/wicks or getting rid of spent propane cylinders. Of course, when the sun doesn't break the horizon for four months at a time, you're kind of hosed for solar.

The ones that I find are dumber are the dynamo-driven (http://www.dynamoflashlight.com/main/) ones with the trigger grip. Walking around in the dark, scissoring your hand open and shut to drive a mechanism that lights the painfully weak LED. Can't set it down for more than ten seconds or it starts to go out.


Jnaer

Re: Solar Flashlight

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. The solar-powered flashlight is one of those things that sounds ludicrous but is actually a pretty good idea.

We had one of those clicker ones with the trigger handle when I was a kid. I remember that we used to love playing with it, but it wasn't much good for anything useful. Eventually the clicker broke.