{"id":2642,"date":"2015-11-15T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2015-11-15\/2642"},"modified":"2015-11-15T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T07:00:18","slug":"mini-review-skilhunt-h02r-head-mounted-flashlight-for-cycling-after-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2015-11-15\/2642","title":{"rendered":"Mini Review: Skilhunt H02R Head Mounted Flashlight, For Cycling after Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

This xkcd<\/a> comic came out today with perfect timing:<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nToday's xkcd Comic<\/span>\nperfectly appropriate for today's blog post\n<\/div>\n\n

Last month I was contacted by GearBest<\/a> and asked whether I'd like to do a review<\/span> of a\nproduct<\/span> from their cycling gear<\/a> or LED lights<\/a> categories; I'd get to keep the product in exchange for an\nunbiased review. Probably they'd seen my headphone review<\/a> done under similar\ncircumstances. I get this<\/span> kind of message every so often and don't usually accept, but a bicycle<\/span> light piqued my interest.<\/p>\n\n

I chose to try out a small, $50 head-mounted light that I thought<\/span> might\nbe useful for nighttime riding:<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nSkilhunt H02 R + Included Headband\n<\/div>\n\n

The flashlight easily separates from the bundled blue and yellow headband, so you can use the flashlight around the house or\nout and about as a normal<\/span> handheld flashlight.<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/a>\nSkilhunt H02 R\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It's quite<\/span> small... a bit<\/span> longer than the palm of my hand is wide, and about as\nthick around as my thumb. Unlike a traditional<\/span> flashlight, the beam comes out from the body at a right<\/span> angle.<\/p>\n\n

It is ridiculously<\/i> bright for its size.<\/p>\n\n

After dinner with Carlin<\/a> the other evening, I stopped<\/span> by the grounds of\nthe Kyoto Imperial Palace Park, which can be very dark at night, and snapped some comparison photos. Mouse over the\nbuttons below the photo to see the same scene illuminated with the flashlight's four levels of brightness:<\/p>\n\n\n

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