This is that environmentally friendly flashlight without batteries that you just shake to charge. Now you can afford to buy a real one for everyone in the house-even the midget with the pacifier. We can go as low as $6.00, depending on your quantity. We cannot compete with auction site people selling dollar store fakes with batteries at artificially low prices, so this is about as good as it will get for the real thing. The picture at the first red link is off an unnamed auction site. We also have feedback from a megasite (we cannot mention the name) to show that a ripoff can happen, even at legitimate sites that can't police their advertisers. After 10 search engines worth of looking, we have concluded that we have the lowest retail price on the planet for this level of quality. We hate to brag (no we don't), but a fluorescent bombardment chamber indicated that our magnets contain cobalt under nickel plating (They are rare earth). We saw this exact same model on another site for $19.95 (raspberry). The mail order catalog that we just received from Dr. So and So offers this size + a mini at...$19.95! Our prices are set much lower than these should be going for, but we haven't cut corners on quality-we paid an independent screening company to QC inspect each flashlight prior to shipment, to ensure superior brightness and the presence of rare earth magnets.  Our flashlights can snap up a paperclip from an inch away. (The magnet alone should be worth $5.00 wholesale-We don't like to buy duds, fakes, or defectives either). These are much brighter than the previous generations of shake lights and have been modified to charge much more quickly. Our custom lot of flashlights uses silver bearing solder to ensure high conductivity on the solder joints. We can guarantee that our competitors are not using the better solder. All it takes is one cold solder joint, and you'll have a flakey flashlight. At below $10.00 each, we are still below the prices that you've seen in the commercial. We are new, and want to keep our prices obnoxiously low to pick up (and keep) customers. This is OUR merchandise, bought direct. You are buying from an engineer, not a salesman. We want you to feel happy about our products. Therefore, our products had better be worth your hard earned money. To skip the science lesson and caviat emptor, and get to a nice picture and the cart, click here. Otherwise, read on.  

Here is the theory: Each flashlight contains an advanced technology storage capacitor and charging circuitry on a mini- circuitboard. Light is generated by a high intensity white/blue LED. The only power source: one heck of a powerful magnet and you.   The magnet is shaken back and forth through a copper magnet-wire coil to create a voltage based on Faraday's law on flux change (Turns x change in flux/time x 10E-8= Voltage). The faster you shake, the higher the charging voltage. These units are premium quality and even use magnetic slide switches to actuate an internal magnetic reed type switch in order to maintain a completely waterproof product. (They float).

Here are the caviats: Some of the new models that we've seen coming out use batteries instead of capacitors. One website claims that capacitors are being used and shows a picture of CR2032 or CR1620 button size calculator batteries inside the flashlight (just like in the picture off that auction site). Other vendors claim that you can shake their equivalent size flashlight for 30 seconds for 4 hours of light. If you believe that they are using capacitors, I have a bridge in NYC to sell you. They would need the equivalent of 48 five minute capacitors to hold the necessary charge. The factory couldn't shoe horn enough capacitors into the flashlight to do the job. I'd definitely check that they even gave you a magnet. 48 hours later, the truth comes out as the calculator batteries die in your flashlight. Unfortunately, it doesn't even pay to send back their fake (if you can still find them listed). Take some sound advice from a magnetic component design engineer who even performed field service on cyclo-inverter capacitor etching equipment used at a capacitor factory. We know how capacitors are made, and how reliable they are -get the capacitor model, and buy from a vendor that knows the product:

* Cell batteries have a short life in comparison to capacitors and may leak if dormant or if    exposed to harsh environments.
* Cell batteries fail as a short circuit, and without proper current limiting, can blow out a    charging circuit. (How many times has the auto shop hit people for alternator diode trio    replacement after the shorted car battery took out the alternator?)
* One day you will need to open up the other guy's flashlight to replace the batteries.    Don't break the hair thin 38 gage wire (or the contact lugs) in your flashlight while trying    to service it. (And don't be surprised if the magnet wire is not even connected to    anything,  and your magnet is a slug (like in the feedback from that megasite).  We    took apart a friend's flea market flashlight and saw this trick. Even one of our    wholesalers was taken. He didn't know it, until we showed him that his magnet wasn't    magnetic, and that there were battery cells camouflaged under black electrical tape.

Capacitors can last for years and years, offering a longer life expectancy than batteries.Our model only uses capacitors, and the 20,000 hour LED would last over nine years if you ran the flashlight continuously for 8 hours every day. No service is needed.