Awesome Lights

Never worry about nighttime visibility on your bike again. Bright Eyes‘ headlight cranks out 1600 lumens on its high setting. Thanks to an external battery pack, it can run from 4 to 16 hours depending on brightness level. It fits all bike handlebars, and comes with a diffuser lens and a free LED taillight.

Turn your space into a work of modern art using light. Artist Minato Takeo’s Etsy shop is packed with light sources and accessories that play with the color spectrum. His lights use RGB or CMY LEDs, pattern cutouts, prisms, and dichroic materials to cast colorful shadows on walls, ceilings, and other surfaces.

This bright light from Klarus is ideal for camping, dinner parties, tailgating, and other outdoor activities. It packs four folding light blades that produce a total of 750 lumens. It can hang, be used in tabletop mode, or as a handheld flashlight, and offers multiple color temperatures, SOS, and red flashing light modes.

This tabletop gadget from Keebmonkey has 12 quartz glass tubes filled with colorful LEDs that move to the beat of your music or other sounds. We like how it combines the high-tech look of its tubes with the warm, natural look of its walnut wood frame. It has a built-in microphone to detect sounds and ten selectable light effects.

This portable light can kick out up to 2000 lumens in its brightest mode, providing smooth 360º illumination for your campsite or any place you need to light up. It takes four D-cell batteries and has four brightness modes. Integrated hooks in its top and base provide hanging versatility. It also has red light night and SOS modes.

If you spin LEDs fast enough, a persistence of vision effect can produce the illusion of a 3-dimensional object. Nick Electronics shows how he built a motorized volumetric display that uses a small grid of LEDs and wireless power to keep it illuminated. Some of the slow-motion patterns it makes are more pronounced on video than to the naked eye.

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.

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.

Add a splash of ambient light and color to your campsite or backyard with this waterproof string lighting from Nite Ize. It has a light source at one end and a 10-foot-long fiber-optic strand, along with ties for stringing up the light. Its rechargeable battery lasts for up to six hours per charge. Comes in blue, white, and lime green.

Since 2010, Tom BetGeorge has been wowing us with his Halloween light shows, and they get better every year. The 2024 video playlist includes awesome displays set to AC/DC’s Thunderstruck, Maroon 5’s Harder to Breathe, Rockwell’s Somebody’s Watching Me, PSY’s Gangnam Style, and closes with Michael Jackson’s Halloween classic Thriller.

BioLite’s compact AlpenGlow Mini lantern is small enough to put in the palm of your hand. It offers diffuse ambient light in warm white or color and is easy to attach to objects thanks to its integrated bungee strap. Runs for 5 hours in high brightness mode and up to 40 hours in low mode. Its 1000 mAh battery charges via a USB-C port.

Don’t get lost in the dark. Let Wuben’s H5 LED headlamp help guide the way during nighttime hikes. Its light can output up to 400 lumens with a wide 175º beam angle and can be detached from the headband clip to be used as a standalone flashlight. A 360º rotating head provides adjustability, while magnets on its clip and light tail provide mounting versatility.

This rechargeable light bar is perfect for working under your car hood, near breaker panels, or other metal surfaces. It has two powerful magnets and hidden swivel hooks for mounting versatility, and its 7800mAh battery pack can also recharge gadgets. It outputs up to 1200 lumens and offers four adjustable color temperatures.

With a 6000-lumen max output, this outdoor light from Goal Zero easily lights up your entire campsite. Its telescoping mechanism extends from 4 feet to 12 feet, and it can illuminate an area up to 300 feet across. Each of its light petals pivots up or down to distribute light, and it’ll run for up to 8 hours on its internal battery. Comes with a hard plastic case for packing.

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.

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.