Monday, September 17, 2007

$500 Dollar Flashlight

I've done this before, using the backlight from an electronic device as an impromptu flashlight.

When I described using a laptop computer as an impromptu flashlight, that triggered a lot of comments from people using their cell phone or PDA as a flashlight. One nickname I've heard for this phenomenon is "the $500 flashlight", $500 being the price of a PDA or SmartPhone at the time the term was coined. (I was amused to find that even Scott Adams does this.)

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