Emergency Illuminator sips power — 20 years on a single charge.

How would you like to have the added peace of mind knowing that when you need a flashlight to work, the Emergency Illuminator won’t ever fail you? Flashlights of yesterday required big “C” or “D” sized batteries that were heavy, bulky, and expensive. But the Emergency Illuminator by mPower isn’t your ordinary flashlight. Even the dual mode battery power feature isn’t that hi-tech. What causes it to gain that techie “future” medal is the long running, sealed battery. We’ll start by saying it isn’t rechargeable. What?! A flashlight battery that’s sealed and can’t be recharged? *Pats you on shoulder* Remember, this sealed battery can go 20 years. Mind you, this doesn’t mean that you can leave it on for 20 years around the clock and expect it to last. Instead, most people have flashlights that sit unused for years at a time. Normal batteries eventually lose their charge over such spans of time. The EI does not. In case you still wanted to kick it old school, the flashlight does as mentioned before have a space for traditional batteries as well.

To entice the true gadget fiends, the EI slips in one other nifty feature — USB charging. If you’re not going to buy a flashlight to use for emergencies or whatever else it is you use flashlights for, why not buy one solely to be a mobile gadget charging station? Somehow I don’t think very many are going to drop $250 on a mobile charging station/flashlight. But the added benefit of that spur of the second charging is hard to pass up don’t you agree?

Unfortunately we’ll have to wait until next year to try this beaut out. Even though it’s designed more as a long shelf life type battery/light, I’m curious as to how long it would run non-stop…

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