Beats the 360 degree head torch
Your head’s on fire!
I work in a homeless shelter. When people step out in the middle of the night with headlamps, it is for the purpose of doing crime (from what I can tell, of course they tell me nothing).
I would not walk with anyone who uses one of these.
" Its main feature is the flexible LED light that stretches across the front brim of your head."
The brim of my head? I have a brow and a forehead, but a “brim”? I am not Mr Fedorahead.
It shouldn’t be too difficult to fashion 2-3 of these into a halo; mIght make for good costume effects.
Perhaps if it had a control to adjust the angle illuminated from 1 to 180?
You’re fooling nobody here, Rick - what you really want is a moving light dot, like KITT or a Cylon.
Plus a setting for raves and concerts.
Maybe. I don’t really see a reason to go beyond about 60 degrees whilst hiking (barring specialists users like Mountain Rescue teams who actively wish to see one another), and a standard headtorch already provides that. I think I already have one that allows focus from wide/diffuse to narrow/intense.
As others have said, night vision is usually better. If an individual wants a light, fine - so long as it’s out of others’ field of view. These things are just antisocial pollution.
I’d be more worried about signaling my location to the critters out there whose night vision is much better than mine. That lamp might daze the ones in front of you, but they’re probably not alone:
You’re clearly not hipster enough to be the target audience.
That’s the story of my life.
I wish everyone would use my technique of wearing my headlamp around my neck. It lights up the path and your “workspace” just fine (tying flies onto a tippet, for example), but if you look at someone it doesn’t blind them.
Basically any LED headlamp has a much more even and diffuse beam than the old incandescent bulbs with reflectors. And single LEDs are commonly available with 180ish so no need for the gimmick.
Of course vertical dispersion is more important than horizontal for climbing or hiking and this thing conveniently doesn’t mention that spec.
Alternately: red lights are good, don’t trash night vision anywhere near as much as white lights, and let you see perfectly well enough.
I spent years doing fiddly laboratory work with nothing but the small LED red taillight from my bicycle clipped to my collar (rat vision is shifted up-spectrum relative to humans, so red light is invisible to them) .
Real happy mutants would be wearing night vision goggles anyway, wouldn’t they?