Awesome Lights

This compact clip-on flashlight from Fitorch was designed for versatility. Attach it to your belt, a hat, or a backpack strap for hands-free illumination. It has five settings, including a 1000-lumen mode and a strobe mode. It’ll run for up to 20 hours in 2-lumen Eco mode but only 45 minutes at 150 lumens due to its small internal battery.

Acebeam’s palm-size Terminator M2-X flashlight is incredibly versatile. It has white spot and flood beams and RGB accent lighting in seven colors. It offers six brightness levels, red and green signal flashes, and a color-changing mode. Available with a 3200-lumen cool white or 2000-lumen high CRI90 light source powered by a replaceable 18650 lithium-ion battery.

This LED accent lamp features color-changing facets you control with your phone. The GLORB is 9.8″ across, or about as big as a basketball, and includes a tabletop stand and a ceiling hook. It’s got a USB-C port, so it can run on a wall charger or a battery pack, can react to music, and can sync multiple units together.

We’ve never seen a light quite like the Kogalla UltRA. This outdoor adventure light connects five bright Cree LEDs on a flexible steel strap. Wrap it around your waist or hang it from your backpack for super-wide-area illumination. The light connects to an external battery pack (not included) via USB, and Kogalla also sells kits with a battery and mounts.

The Outdoor Neon Flex is an RGBW LED light strip with an IP67 water resistance rating. This 16-foot-long flexible LED strip has 60 addressable color zones and outputs up to 1250 lumens. It’s compatible with Matter for compatibility with other smart home devices and can be controlled with the LIFX mobile app.

To celebrate Chinese New Year, Handy Geng wanted a special good-luck outfit. After explaining the Chinese Zodiac, Geng put dozens of grommets into a sweater and filled each with a red LED light reminiscent of Rudolph’s nose. To complete the party effect, he scattered laser diodes between the bulbs. Turn captions on, and be sure to watch til the end.

These tiny devices add a splash of soft light wherever you have a spare USB port. Plug them into outlets with USB ports, USB hubs, battery packs, or wall chargers. The 1.02″ W x 1.02″ H x 1.45″ D cubes are sold in sets of six in cool or warm white.

It’s easy to find LED grids that can be programmed to display animations. So this build by Dr. Tõnis Gadgets that uses fiber optics to direct light into a smaller matrix seems unnecessarily complicated. It still looks cool, like something out of the engineering lab in a science fiction movie. The display was inspired by Elliotmade’s fiber optic display from Instructables.

There are lots of work lights out there, but what makes this one different is its ability to adjust between spot and flood beams. So whether you need a narrow, focused beam or a broad area light, you’re good. It has 125-lumen and 1150-lumen modes, an adjustable kickstand/handle, and a built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery.

There are a number of LED light curtains on the market, but Twinkly’s is the most densely packed with RGB lights we’ve seen. The result – more detailed patterns and animations. It uses a mobile app to display custom images and can also mirror a Windows PC screen. Available in 3.3 x 3.3-foot and 1.6 x 7.9-foot versions.

This portable light from Goal Zero can illuminate your entire campsite or yard. Its 6000-lumen head covers an area up to 300 feet across. The light sits atop an adjustable stand that telescopes from 4 feet to 12 feet tall, and its six light petals can be adjusted to provide light in all directions. Includes a hard carrying case. External power packs sold separately.

The waterproof and cold-proof Hexnub light makes it easy to see what’s in your drink cooler, even at night. The rechargeable light provides up to 55 hours of white light, even when submerged in ice. It has adjustable brightness levels and a red light mode, so you can use it as an emergency beacon. Its magnetic base attaches to metal surfaces, too.

Stanley’s PSL1000S light provides smooth and bright illumination for your workbench using 45 COB LEDs in an adjustable-angle light bar. It offers two brightness levels, as well as four AC power outlets, two USB charging ports, and storage for small hand tools at its sides.

Kizen’s compact LED lantern is perfect for campsites, or anywhere you need a little extra light. It collapses down to about the size of a hockey puck and can juice up via USB or a built-in solar panel, and its rechargeable battery can be used as a phone charger in an emergency. It comes in blue or yellow.

Make your new festival staple the ENO Islander LED Blanket and you’ll never get lost in the crowd. The colorful, quick-drying-nylon ground tarp is trimmed with a string of LED lights that stake your personal acreage in three lighting modes: bright, dim, and flashing. Travels small in its own stuff pack and runs on three AAA batteries.

Extension cords are useless when you wanna plug in a string of lights while camping, stoking a beach bonfire, or even hammock lounging in your backyard. Get lit with ENO Twilights, a 20-LED string of super-bright twinklers powered by three AAA batteries. Available in white or multi-color versions. H20 resistant.

Inspired by hi-fi tech, the bright Swedes at Bookman invented Volume Light, controlled by a Power Wheel to easily adjust five levels of brightness. Even better, the replaceable light battery recharges via USB-C while you ride, helping it win this year’s Eurobike Award at the world’s leading bike trade show.

Govee specializes in RGB LED light kits. Their curtain lights can display patterns on a grid of 520 teardrop-shaped light beads. The Govee mobile app includes more than 80 scene presets, music sync, and the ability to upload animated GIFs. They’re also rated IP65 waterproof so that you can use them outside. Chris Maher’s in-depth review shows them in action.

Members of the Tesla Club Finland parked their cars and put on a synchronized light show using their vehicles’ headlights and taillights. In all, 687 of the electric vehicles were on hand, and automotive channel Harri Salo posted this aerial footage of the festivities. The light show was put together by Simon Pollock. Watch the ground view here. (Thanks, Olli!)

Set the mood in any room with Govee’s colorful LED cube sconces. Each app-controlled cube can produce 16 million colors plus white and casts a soft beam of light up to six feet along your wall or ceiling. The set includes six wall sconces, cables, a power supply, a control box, and mounting hardware.

Some mechanics’ lights are quite large, but the versatile Nitecore NWL20 is small enough to carry anywhere. It has a smooth 600-lumen COB floodlight, a focused 290-lumen LED spotlight, and steady/flashing red light modes for preserving night vision and emergencies. Its base has 180º adjustability and both hook and magnetic mounting options.

This wallet-size card improves your smartphone photography, adding a bright and smooth field of light whenever you need it. It attaches wirelessly to Android phones and iPhones with MagSafe backs and can pull power via USB-C or wirelessly from phones that support power sharing. Add-ons include a stand, a diffuser, and an external battery pack.