GOGO Lantern Review: A Versatile Portable Light

Posted on 15/08/2017 by Shane McGlaun

The GOGO lantern is a new portable lamp that’s currently being funded over on Kickstarter. The product is just what it sounds like, a lantern that you can use on the go or at home. The GOGO has some cool features, with the big one being a solar panel on top to charge the lantern when you are out in the field. That is a huge deal for campers and hikers, so they don’t have to worry about a power source for recharging.

The solar panel means you can recharge the GOGO Lantern during the day and then have light at night. The lantern promises to charge fully with 6-8 hours of time in direct sunlight. You can then run the LED lamp for up to eight hours per charge. That means you can fully discharge it at night, and then leave it in the sun and the next night it is ready to go again.

If you are near an outlet and want to charge it faster, you can remove the LED light portion of the lantern from its container and connect it to a USB adapter on your wall. The GOGO Lantern has eight LEDs and you can control the brightness between settings of 120 lumens, 60 lumens, or a flashing SOS light.

The base lantern where the LEDs are located has magnets in it so the light will stick to metal surfaces. The light will turn on automatically after being on the surface for five seconds. I found that magnet was great for working in places where you need both hands available, like under a car hood. The light is waterproof with IP67 rating so it will survive water crossings, rain, and spills.

I liked the dispersed light that the GOGO Lantern produced with the opaque lantern bucket my test unit included. You can get the lantern in a clear bucket style or custom printed design too. The opaque lantern bag created a nice soft area light without glare. The lantern collapses easily making it less than 2-inches thick when folded down. It is easy to carry in a backpack or bag without adding much weight. A lanyard hole does allow you to wear the GOGO Lantern around your neck too.

The soft-sided bucket section can be separated from the lamp, and is waterproof so you can use it for holding or transporting water from a river to camp or whatever other uses you might want a bucket for.

The GOGO Lantern is on Kickstarter through 7am CST on August 26, 2017. Early Bird GOGO lanterns are still available for just $39. Another $10 will get you a second lantern bucket, and $30 will get you an extra, customized lantern bucket. The GOGO Lantern is perfect for hikers, backpackers, campers, and outdoorsy types that need a rugged lantern to light the way in the dark.

Helio Camping Lantern Review: Tiny Light, Plenty Bright

Posted on 19/05/2017 by Shane McGlaun

I love to be in the great outdoors, hiking around Colorado. If you are ever backpacking or trying to hike with as little weight as possible, you have to watch everything you put in your pack. You must have a flashlight for overnight excursions and as an emergency device if you get lost. The problem is that most of us don’t want to carry some big old fashioned lantern, packed with heavy batteries.

Flextail has some very cool products for fans of the outdoors, and the latest product from the company is called the Flextail Helio. This is a tiny camping lantern that is extremely bright and lightweight.

Helio comes with a D-ring attached to it to allow you to hang the lantern from the poles inside your tent or to clip it onto a belt loop or your backpack. The top of the lantern has a magnet inside so you can simply attach it to metal surfaces. The coolest part is that the Helio is so light you literally won’t know it is there. Helio weighs in at 45g making it lighter than an egg.

While it’s very light, it’s still able to produce 220 lumens of light making it brighter than some lanterns you will find at the camping store. It has two brightness settings, and to activate the brighter setting you simply hold the power button for a few seconds when the lamp is on. The lantern is rechargeable, which can be a bad thing in some instances because you can’t just carry extra batteries with you. Fortunately, you can at least charge it up via an ordinary USB port.

The cool part is that the USB connector is built into the inside of the Helio and all you need to do is open the hinged design and plug the USB connector into a portable battery or solar panel (not included) to recharge in the outdoors. I’d wager many campers are already carrying a battery pack of some sort with them to keep phones and other gadgets charged up. However, the Helio won’t run when the USB port is exposed, you have to remove it from charging and close the lid to make the light function.

For charging at home you can plug that integrated USB port into your computer or a wall charger, but the design makes it a bit awkward for some outlets. The Helio also has a micro USB port inside that allows you to connect the same charger you use for many Android phone.

Helio uses LEDs making it power miserly, Flextail claims that the light can last for up to 400 hours when you are using it with a 10,000 mAh powerbank. The internal battery inside Helio is good for ten hours of use after about a 20 minute charge according to the company.

If you are wondering how much Helio costs, that is a mystery right now. The lantern will be on Kickstarter raising money soon and if you go to the Flextail website you can sign up to be notified when the crowdfunding campaign starts. This is a very cool camping lantern for outdoorsy types who want as little weight as possible

A Torch with a Twist

Posted on 27/03/2017 by Troy Turner

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The Panolight makes perfect, simple sense! Whether you’re working or playing, sometimes you need a beam, sometimes you need ambient light. Panolight provides both with one simple twist.

By adjusting the tactile end cap, you can transform it from a focused flashlight to a lantern in seconds. One twist will reveal a single column of light, but continue to twist and more columns will turn on to increase the vibrancy and expand the direction of emitted light.

The design detail on the back gives it a functional, but equally playful element. Just like people spin their pens or keychains to keep their fingers occupied, this design detail becomes the fidget-worthy element on the torch. The torch’s back even comes with its own handle, allowing you to hang it anywhere. It also ditches the pencil battery for a USB powered approach. Even though you may say that your phone flashlight is essentially the same thing remember, the Panolight can work for hours on a single charge, and is the only torch that turns from focused to ambient lighting!

Designer: Pushpal Dey

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The Most Fun Lamp/Power-bank EVER!

Posted on 27/01/2017 by Sarang Sheth

Honestly though. The Lunar lantern is just the most nerdy, fun lamp you’ll ever own. Trust it to be the perfect addition to your parties or camping trips because it’ll get everyone talking in no time! Designed to work like a gas lantern, the lamp spreads a wonderful incandescent glow, mimicking the warmth and the aura of the vintage gas lanterns. The fun bit is that it even comes with the twisting diffuser knob that absolutely recreates the feel of the lantern from Ye Olde days!

The Lunar lamp was designed to be a lamp with a strong identity and experience but it does a pretty marvelous job as a functional product too. When it isn’t sitting in the middle of a group of huddled people singing songs or sharing ghost stories, it works as a powerful handheld torch too. The Lantern module snaps right off and gets replaced by a torch module that comes with a convenient handle for gripping. The torch module can further be swapped for an ambient-light module that works perfectly for mood or night lighting. It even glows in the dark, guiding your path even when it’s off!

When it isn’t being the most interactive, fun lamp in the world, the Lunar allows you to charge your mobile phone. The main hub that gets connected to all the lighting attachments is actually a battery, providing you with light when you need it, and access to your smartphone at other times!

What makes Lunar such a winner though is that as a product, it does more than look and perform beautifully. It comes with an identity that speaks to users that brings about an emotion in them. It may work wonderfully as a lantern, torch, and mood light (plus power bank), but as Johnnie Manzari, the human interface designer at Apple said… People are attracted to stories, not feature lists. And that’s what is so beautiful and inviting about the Lunar lamp.

Designer: Royce YU

BUY IT HERE: $52.00 ~~$75.00~~

Green Lantern Corps Movie Given the Go-Ahead

Posted on 13/01/2017 by affam

Everyone was skeptical when DC did not specify what movies it will be releasing in the next five years contrary to Marvel’s very specific schedule. The DC Comics are full of loved superheroes and any...

Lantern of Knowledge

Posted on 05/12/2014 by Radhika Seth

One way of looking at the Internet is that it is the largest library ever constructed. Having a library, or a way to store human creativity, is important because any future advancement requires a foundation of accumulated knowledge. Of all the ways humans have come up with for passing on information (oral traditions to the printed), the Internet is the best we’ve created thus far. Yet, only ⅓ of humanity has access to the Internet. Bridging this gap is the Lantern, a portable data receiving device; here’s why you need to get your hands on one.

Disaster Preparedness

Despite this enormous information disparity, here you are reading this article on the Internet. You may be wondering why the Lantern makes sense for you. If you’re the type of person who values emergency preparedness and has a disaster kit, then Lantern is a “must have.” You have radio for audio, public television broadcasts for visual and newspapers for written, but all of those can be (and often are) compromised during a disaster. Lantern’s signal comes from space. It is a piece of tech gear that you can depend on when phone lines are down and you want to know what’s going on. Buy a Lantern and be prepared!

An FM Radio For Data

Founder Syed Karim explains that Outernet, the company that makes Lantern, is focused on delivering critical information to as many people as possible and does so in a way that works kind of like an FM radio. Instead of a radio tower, Outernet uses satellites. Instead of creating music for your ear, Lantern emits a Wi-Fi signal for your Wi-Fi-enabled device. Instead of songs, Lantern receives and stores files. In this regard, it is actually better than a radio; imagine if a radio could save every song that you liked and that’s how Lantern handles your files.

The company provides time-sensitive content like news bulletins and disaster alerts, which will be updated several times an hour. They will also give access to content from websites like Wikipedia, Khan Academy and Project Gutenberg, a collection of copyright-free e-books. Thus their tagline of “Humanity’s Public Library.”

Connectivity On the Go

If you are a traveler like me, then you visit countries that like to hold a noose on certain websites and water down the news. In these countries, getting clean access to, say, the real BBC or CNN news and not the censored sources is a big plus. Moreover, many remote locations and exotic destinations do not have the infrastructure for Internet. Giving global access to Outernet via Lantern is an easy and affordable solution.

Whether its for the sake of putting a “library in your pocket” or staying connected to the world, for the special IndieGoGo price of $99, there really is no reason to not get a Lantern.

Designer: Outernet [ Buy it Here ]

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The Unexpected Magic Of Santa Fe’s Christmastime Lanterns

Posted on 20/12/2013 by forbes

Take a small paper bag, pour in a couple cups of sand, and stick a tea light in the center: as Christmas lights go, farolitos would seem to rank on the less-impressive side of the scale. There’s an...

Green House Lantern Runs on Salt Water to Defeat Blackest Night

Posted on 09/09/2012 by Lambert Varias

Lamps, flashlights and lanterns frequently run on batteries or solar power, but the Green House GH-LED10WBW lantern only needs a drink of water with a dash of salt mixed in, and it’s good to go. It’s all thanks to its power source, a consumable rod that is filled with magnesium and carbon. Salty water facilitates the flow of current for up to 8 hours. The rod will need to be replaced every 120 hours.

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Even better, it can also charge USB devices, although it can only output 4.5V so it can’t charge tablets and other power hungry gadgets. No word on its price, release date or availability though. I wonder if you can power it with tears. Or urine.

[via Green House via Akihabara News]

Green House’s lantern runs on salt and water, powers your gadgets via USB

Posted on 07/09/2012 by Sarah Silbert

Japanese company Green House Co Ltd has quite an eclectic product portfolio, what with its women-only camcorder and peripherals like a PCI Express interface card with USB 3.0 support. Its latest device falls under another category entirely: the rivetingly named GH-LED10WBW is an LED lantern that runs on just water and salt; no batteries required. The light source provides eight hours of electricity per dose of saline water, and the lantern comes with a dedicated water bag for mixing the solution. The salt / water combo acts as an electrolyte with the magnesium (negative electrode) and carbon (positive electrode) rods inside the lantern. Users can get about 120 hours of power with the Mg rod before they'll need to buy a replacement (the rod is sold separately to begin with). More than just supplying a battery-free source of light, though, the lantern can function as a charger, thanks to a USB port built into the casing. Pricing has yet to be announced, but the GH-LED10WBW will be available by mid-September.

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