Sometimes a little light can go a long way, such as not cutting yourself when using a knife in the dark. For those times when you’re hiking, camping or just need to cut something and don’t have access to a light – and don’t want to hold a flashlight in your mouth – the SOG Blade Light, a folding knife, will come in handy.
It employs six LED lights molded into the GRN handle, which are powered by two AAA batteries, and can provide 34-37 lumens. It can also stand up to nature as it is IPX-7 rated for full immersion in water. The Blade Light will be available next month for $85, which is far less than the cost of stitches on the hand! Video after the jump
Bike Luminance is a Kickstarter project that aims to create a bike helmet with a motion reactive lighting system that will signal your turns with the tilt of your head. A prototype of the helmet has LED lighting that blinks to signal a right turn, left turn and stop, depending on how you incline your head while riding. 
This week Light & Motion introduced the new update to its popular Solite, which is a light that could have so many uses. Introduced in 2011 the light can mount to handlebars, helmet, directly to the head or even just carried as a traditional flashlight.
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Dual purpose devices are becoming more and more common. We’ve seen bike headlights that can also be used as lanterns, but now Mammut is offering the T-Trail + Ambient Light Dry Bag a dry bag that can help keep gear protected from the elements, or be used to carry up to three liters of water. At night – and once the water is emptied out of course – it can be used with the included T-Trail headlamp (which can also be worn on the head or a helmet) to provide a lantern in the tent or campsite.
We’ve seen a variety of helmet mounted lights, but now the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s Exertion Games Lab has taken helmet lights to the next level with the LumanHelm. The design team, which included Wouter Walmink, Alan Chatham and Floyd Mueller took a regular bicycle helmet and added some LEDs – but not just one or two.
Knog have been going strong for several years making silicon bicycle lights, and the company has unveiled its new set of USB rechargeable lights, under its Blinder brand. There will be new models – the 1 and 4 – that will be encased in metal and silicon, meaning these will be both watertight and bright as the lights will feature either a single LED or four LEDs respectively. And because these are factory-sealed they will be totally waterproof and even submersible – not that we can figure out why anyone would put them underwater.
When camping bringing good portable lights is key. This is something that is sometimes very difficult to understand in our modern world where lights are readily available after the sun goes down. There are plenty of lights out there, but it can expensive and take up a lot of room to bring them all.
The Casio PRG550-1 doesn’t have that “living on the edge” sort of name, but this sport watch might not need a snappy name. While it isn’t a GPS or heart rate monitor, it tells times and a lot more including providing a compass, altimeter, barometer and thermometer. The second hand on the watch doubles as a compass, while being able to show changes in atmospheric pressure.
When sleeping in a tent or even under the stars the only light might often be from the moon and the stars above. That can make for a good night’s sleep but can make it hard to answer nature’s call. While a flashlight can be just an arm’s length away it can’t always be so easily found in the dark – the very definition of irony.
While this nifty new light from Denmark-based Copenhagen Parts won’t likely have owners of carbon fiber bikes hanging their rides up for an old-school steel frame, it could create some “steel” envy. The company is developing a magnetic bike light that attaches directly to the steel frame and turns on as soon as it is in place. By removing the light from the frame it automatically turns off. 
It seems that great minds must think alike, is we’ve come across another innovative (and dare we say bright) idea for helping cast a little illumination for those cycling at night. Los Angeles industrial designer Nathan Wills has launched a Kickstater project to create a helmet with built-in luminous panels.