wearable led throwies
The months have moved into double figures and it’s starting to be properly dark in the mornings as I cycle to work. I need new lights. My bike currently sports a grand total of 4 leds. Not enough.
I used to have a 3 led bike light sewn into the lower back of my cycling fleece. It worked pretty well, made sure I didn’t forget my lights. But it was a bit clunky, and people laughed at it.
Introducing GLOWIES - the clicky wearable mini led for cyclists.
A simple, single, red LED held on a plastic clip which ‘pin fastens’ through your waterproof / fleece / jersey. (I know this could break your waterproof goretex perfection, but hey, it’s just that last inch of fabric, all it’s protecting is your shorts!). A swappable watch battery provides the power. So far so simple. So what’s new?
I haven’t seen anything like this with a simple switching mechanism. Making them wireless would be too much hassle, and too expensive. Making little switches on them would be an amazingly fiddly process when you have January fingers, and would get gunked up. No - we need a simple, inexpensive, ‘do it with gloves on’ solution. And who better to provide this than our friend the magnet.
With every pack of glowies comes a trigger magnet. This goes on your keyring or something. You just wave the trigger behind the glowies to turn them on, and in front of them to turn them off. An internal switch is then … well … switched to the appropriate position. Simple. The real benefit is obviously that the switch itself is sealed inside the glowie, so can’t get gunked up.
Creative types could draw flowers with them. Rock gods could spell ‘MAIDEN’ across their back in sinister glowing red. But more importantly, I could run a nice row of red lights across my back to make sure cars see me on roundabouts and country roads. And they wouldn’t have a flash mode. I hate flash mode.
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