MAGLIte Rechargeable Flashlight

Beanie X

The Beanie X is a rechargeable LED head torch built into a beanie, and as both a torch and a beanie, it’s fantastic. The first thing I noticed when testing the Beanie X is that the narrow beam setting is extremely bright, at 200 lumens. (Don’t look directly into it when you first turn it on!) The six settings are easy to click through: in total, there’s a narrow beam, a high, medium and low wide beam, and a flashing or steady red beam.

Nightsearcher Headstar

Night Searcher Explorer-XSR

NightSearcher is a UK LED lighting manufacturer that specialises in portable lighting. Floodlights, work lights, searchlights, flashlights and inspection lamps – this company produces lights that could be, and are, used by the emergency services, armed forces, construction companies and more. Professional, industrial-level, and ready for anything, including lighting underground works, these lights won’t let you down.

Ever since I was a small boy, I have loved torches. It’s strange, really, but I’ve always loved how they give you the power to see the un-see able in the dark. I now live in the countryside, where a good torch is an essential household item, and I am also a keen runner. Even with the long dark nights in winter, I will be found running, so I have used lots of different torches over the years.

I have an ancient car with an old fashioned, manual, key in the hole locking system - which is all well and good in the daytime - but attempted access at night has resulted in scratches all around the lock as i jab at it blindly in the dark, time for a torch. Now, I could have settled for a £2.99 jobby off eBay that would cast a faint glow for a few months before falling apart, but if you are going to do something you might as well do it right.

Whether you are taking the dog for a walk in the evening, attempting to find your car at night or stumbling through the campsite after dark, everything becomes easier if you have a torch to hand, but it isn’t always convenient to carry one around.

This torch, oh my goodness this torch! Whether you are walking the country lanes at night, using it in an industrial setting or simply trying to blind your mates on a camping weekend, the DX80 will not let you down.

As the evenings draw in and we spend more and more of our waking hours in the dark, I found myself digging through the kitchen draw for my torch only to discover that the batteries I left in it last year had died.