NEON FLASH PEN

Neon Flash Pen, retail twelve for $12.99 (www.orientaltrading.com...)
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 08-07-07




These are ballpoint pens that feature a red LED inside that comes on when you write; a transparent plastic column with a number of opaque filaments in it goes up the transparent barrel, so the entire pen glows when you write.

Each one is powered with a pair of AG-3 button cells.
These should be changeable when necessary, but I have not yet figured out how to accomplish this.

These pens are sold only in lots of 12; this equates to a price of just $1.08 apiece.


SIZE



Use this pen as you would any disposable pen - remove the cap, write, write some more, write yet some more, and place the cap back on when you're finished writing.

The red LED comes on when you press down with the force normally used to write; it turns off automatically when you lift the pen off the paper.

The LED will generally stay on for each word (except when you cross your "i"s and "j", dot your "t"s, and write punctuation & special symbols like !, #, $, %, &, etc.) if you write in cursive; and will flash one or more times per letter if you write in block lettering.



Although it appears as though the batteries can be changed, I have not yet figured out how to actually do it.



This product is meant to be used as a pen in a dry area, not as a flashlight meant to be thrashed, trashed, and abused. So I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, try to drown it in the toylet bowl or the cistern, run over it, swing it against the concrete floor of a patio, bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannonada (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piņata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a scanner-type device on a platform with a large readout or with a handheld wand), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or inflict upon it punishments that flashlights may have inflicted upon them.

The pen is not water-resistant or submersible, therefore, water, milk, diet vanilla Pepsi, cold (or hot) coffee, urine, ice cold fizzy root beer, disposable douches, disposable enemas, tranny fluid, gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, brake fluid, motor oil, or other liquids could get inside. So please try not to drop it in creeks, rivers, ponds, lakes, oceansides, docksides, snowbanks, puddles of rhinocerous pee, tall cold glasses (or short lukewarm glasses) of milk, slush piles, mud puddles, tubs, root beer floats, toilet bowls, cisterns, sinks, cups of coffee (hot *OR* cold), fishtanks, dog water dishes, old yucky wet mops, wall-mounted porcelain urinators, leaky water heaters, busted garden hoses, puddles of antifreeze, brake fluid, tranny fluid, gasoline, or other places where water or water-like liquids might be found. And you'll probably want to cover it up or otherwise get rid of it (such as by putting it in a pocket or bag) if you need to carry it in rainy or snowy weather.

If it fell in water and you suspect it got flooded, disassemble it as much as you can without tools, dump out the water if necessary, and set the parts in a warm dry place for a day or so just to be sure it's completely dry inside before you reassemble and use it again.

If it fell into seawater, got thrown into a glass of milk, if it fell in a root beer float, if it fell into a bowl of "soft-serv" ice cream, if somebody squirted a Summer's Eve brand post-menstrual disposable douche or a Fleet brand disposable enema at it (and hit it with the douche or the enema), or if somebody or something peed on it, rinse all the parts out with fresh water before setting them out to dry. You don't want your pen to smell like seaweed, sour milk, flowers, fresh butts, or rotten piss when you go to use it next. Besides, salt (from seawater, disposable douches, disposable enemas, or urination), lactic acid (from moo juice), or sugar (from root beer & ice cream) can't be very good for the battery contacts.

The pen writes in black ink, and the writing is of approximately the same quality as a good disposable.



Photograph of the pen, illuminated, of course.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrometer plot of the LED in this pen.
Ocean Optics USB2000 Spectrometer on loan from WWW.TWO-CUBED.COM.





TEST NOTES:
Test units of this (they only come in lots of twelve) were purchased on the Oriental Trading website on 07-25-07, and were received on the afternoon of 08-03-07.

Product was made in China. A product's country of origin really does matter to some people, which is why I published it on this web page.


UPDATE: 00-00-00



PROS:



CONS:



    MANUFACTURER: Unknown
    PRODUCT TYPE: LED-illuminated ballpoint pen
    LAMP TYPE: Red LED
    No. OF LAMPS: 1
    BEAM TYPE: N/A
    SWITCH TYPE: Press pen tip down / auto activation
    CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
    BEZEL: N/A
    BATTERY: 2xAG3 button cells
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
    WATER RESISTANT: Light splatter-resistance only
    SUBMERSIBLE: No
    ACCESSORIES: 2xAG3 button cells
    WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated

    PRODUCT RATING:

    Star Rating





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