Perhaps if it had a control to adjust the angle illuminated from 1 to 180?
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You’re fooling nobody here, Rick - what you really want is a moving light dot, like KITT or a Cylon.
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Plus a setting for raves and concerts.
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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.
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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:
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You’re clearly not hipster enough to be the target audience.
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That’s the story of my life. 
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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.
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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.
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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) .
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Real happy mutants would be wearing night vision goggles anyway, wouldn’t they?
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Well, there’s probably a room-spanning LiFi adapter that works for purpose.
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Right, great headlamp and great for guaranteeing all the wildlife has been pissed off. [Insert video of Theresa May, polishing at home with West Enders Spray: ‘It will be what I use for the remaining wildlife.’]
Probably pretty good for being accosted less while protesting. Trail running’s a fine fantasy to do too, maybe with amber and a red laser projection grid (or a nice paisley really.)
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Yes, but 360 Degrees!
Real happy mutants would have mutant ability to see in near total darkness, no goggles needed 
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Maybe a band going over the top of the head for climbing; like a low-profile, glowing mohawk.
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Spelunking with a 3-hour battery? Lol, no.
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Headline: “… a game changer for night hiking”
First photo: guy climbing a rock face.
Sounds like a night hiking game changer to me.
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