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Awesome Glow In The Dark

Gear Aid Glow Fob

Gear Aid Glow Fob
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This palm-size fob glows in the dark to help you find items when the sun goes down. It attaches easily to keychains, backpacks, zippers, tents, and other outdoor gear. A 10-minute charge from sunlight or a flashlight will glow for hours and is visible from up to 25 feet away. The price shown is for a 2-pack.

Bertucci DX3 Plus Glow Watch

Bertucci DX3 Plus Glow Watch
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Most analog watches have markers that glow in the dark. But the DX3 Plus from Ultimate Field Watch also has a glowing case. Its durable resin body is infused with phosphorescent material, so the whole thing glows in the dark. It has a 4-year battery life, 50 M water resistance, and sits on a Defender Drab nylon webbing strap.

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Making Glowing Ninja Throwing Stars

Making Glowing Ninja Throwing Stars

Robinson Foundry created these not-so-stealthy shurikens which glow in the dark. He created the design on his computer, 3D-printed forms for sand casting, then filled the molds with aluminum bronze. After finishing, he added a mix of epoxy resin and strontium aluminate, which glows brightly after being exposed to light.

Maratac Glow-in-the-Dark Tool Caddy

Maratac Glow-in-the-Dark Tool Caddy

This glow-in-the-dark caddy is great for storing pens or small pocket tools and making them easy to find in a darkened room. It has six compartments and is made from heat- and solvent-resistant silicone so it won’t slip around on your desktop. Available from CountyComm 1.16.2023.

Embrite Glow Beacon

Embrite Glow Beacon
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This 2″ x 3″ slab glows brilliantly for up to 12 hours once exposed to sunlight or a UV light source. Its got a hook and loop backing so you can Velcro it onto bags or other objects to improve nighttime visibility. Available in green or aqua, or with an optional biohazard symbol for added effect.

TurboGlow EDC Bead

TurboGlow EDC Bead
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This photoluminescent bead from EDC accessory company MetonBoss adds an incredibly bright glow to keychains, lanyards, and paracord. Depending on the color you choose, it can glow for 12 hours or more on a charge. It looks like a glow-in-the-dark Life Savers candy, but don’t dare try to eat it.

Fluorescent Squared Playing Cards

Fluorescent Squared Playing Cards

MPC is printing just 375 decks of these very special fluorescent playing cards. Each card’s front, back, and edge is printed with special ink, which glows brightly under UV light. They come in peach, bubble gum, and pumpkin color schemes, each with a fluorescent tuck box. They’re great for cardistry or card games under black light.

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Gaslight Glowing Key Fob

Gaslight Glowing Key Fob
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GambleMade’s keychain accessory serves one purpose only – to glow in the dark. Oh, and it looks cool too. The handmade metal key fob packs a phosphorescent center that charges up in the sun or a light bulb. It comes in titanium or a copper/brass combo with a green or aqua blue glow.

3D-Printed Glowing Zipper Pulls

3D-Printed Glowing Zipper Pulls

Adafruit Industries shows us some nifty DIY zipper pulls they made using a 3D printer and glow-in-the-dark powder. Each pull holds a tiny glass bottle charm in the center that contains the pigment and has holes to help light to shine through. Read the full build guide on the Adafruit blog.

Retro Television Pins

Retro Television Pins

Joshua Ellingson makes this wonderful series of enamel pins based on vintage television sets. They feature glow-in-the-dark screens that you can decorate with animated lenticular stickers. Cabinet designs include woodgrain, black and gold, silver, copper, and bronze.

Titanium Glow Lanterns

Titanium Glow Lanterns
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TiSurvival’s 1.18″ long titanium cylinders have a capsule inside which glows brightly for up to 24 hours after being charged in the light. They’re work great as a pendant, zipper pull, or on a keychain. Available in a variety of finishes.

LÜM-TEC Watches

LÜM-TEC Watches
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LÜM-TEC watch markers, numbers, and hands feature an 8-layer coating of Super-Luminova, which gives them some of the brightest glow-in-the-dark capabilities we’ve seen. They come in a variety of styles, each powered by an accurate quartz movement. Special pricing available from Touch of Modern through 12.13.21.

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Glowing Pendulum Waves

Glowing Pendulum Waves

Science guy NightHawkInLight takes a popular pendulum physics demonstration and amps it up. He starts out with a large pendulum made from metal nuts and varying lengths of strings for the bright shots, then covers them with tape and fluorescent paint to make them glow brightly under UV light.

Merrell Night Sky Shoe Collection

Merrell Night Sky Shoe Collection
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We wear Merrell sneakers for their comfort and durability. This new collection adds a splash of color to their normally earth-toned shoes. Each comes in shades of blue from the night sky, dotted with reflective stars – some with a glow-in-the-dark rubber outsole. Available in men’s, women’s, and big kid’s sizes.

Oceanus Brass Sailor’s Compass

Oceanus Brass Sailor’s Compass

This elegant and practical navigational instrument from Oceanus Brass is machined from solid brass. It has a smoothly turning face dial and a protective cover that attaches securely with threads. Its oil-filled capsule ensures the pointer won’t stick, and a bright luminescent ring and pointer help with low-light visibility.

Phob Luminescent Keychain

Phob Luminescent Keychain

The Phob is a unique, premium keychain that clips easily to a pocket, belt, or webbing. Each one is assembled from 10 individual components, including a phosphorescent composite insert that glows in the dark. It comes in titanium-clad, copper-clad, and brass-clad versions.

PhoTOP Spinning Toy

PhoTOP Spinning Toy

Kenneth Brecher of Sirius Enigmas created this plaything with a phosphorescent disc that glows when exposed to a UV or deep purple laser pointer, resulting in spiral patterns that temporarily appear. Its disc is made from painted plastic, while its spinner is aluminum. The set even includes the laser pointer.

GLO-X Glowing Campers Essentials

GLO-X Glowing Campers Essentials
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This pack of glow-in-the-dark markers will help you keep track of tent pegs, ropes, and other parts of your campsite in the dark. They glow for up to 12 hours on a daylight charge, and the set includes round markers, straight markers, and markers that can hang from zipper pulls. Find more glowing goodies in the GLO-X store.

Piano Fingers

Piano Fingers

Japanese performance troupe XTRAP have incredible manual dexterity, focusing much of their routine on synchronized finger tutting. Here, they show off their digits with a glow-in-the-dark routine that kicks off with a piano made out of fingers.

Glowing Metal RPG Dice

Glowing Metal RPG Dice

This weighty metal dice set features a glow-in-the-dark inlay that adds a new dimension to your tabletop RPG sessions. They come in glowing blue and a green variants, and each set includes D4, D6, D8, 2xD10 (0-9 and 00-90),D12, and D20 dice. Made from zinc alloy.

Xeric Soloscope II Watch

Xeric Soloscope II Watch

Xeric’s follow-up to their Soloscope SQ watch has numerous upgrades. Its hour and minute indicators are easier to read, while the left side serves as an AM/PM indicator and secondary hour display. SuperLuminova markers glow brilliantly in the dark. Available in 10 color combos, each with a Horween leather strap.

MPC Fluorescent Playing Cards

MPC Fluorescent Playing Cards

Make Playing Cards is showing off a sweet new deck printed with neon inks that intensify under ultraviolet light. Their matching tuck case also glows brightly under black light. Limited to 5000 decks, along with special multi-deck “brick” packaging and an uncut sheet that would look awesome framed and illuminated.

Brightest Glow-in-the-Dark Room

Brightest Glow-in-the-Dark Room

After painting a room in the blackest black paint you can buy today, The Action Lab peeled that off and replaced it with the brightest glow-in-the-dark pigment, called LIT. He then hit it with a crazy bright 100,000 lumen flashlight to see just how intense the glow can get.

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