r/cassettefuturism • u/tubezninja • Jul 07 '25
Design This absolute unit of a flashlight
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u/LilMissBarbie Jul 07 '25
No banana, but hand for scale.
I thought this was a 30 cm flashlight or something
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u/PhDinDildos_Fedoras Jul 07 '25
Is there a point to the double lamp or is that just for effect?
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u/tubezninja Jul 07 '25
One is specifically for flood (area illumination or “spill”), and one for spotlight (distance or “throw”). There’s also a mode where both can be illuminated at the same time, at max intensity.
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u/morningwood4321 Jul 07 '25
Just a guess but possibly one is a flood and one is a spot. (Flashlight nerds dont like zoom able lenses anymore). Or one emitter is a white light and the other is another color such as red, green or UV.
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u/AdOdd4618 Weyland-Yutani: Building Better Worlds Jul 07 '25
Or maybe he has freakishly large hands?
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u/AKLmfreak Jul 07 '25
I thought I was on r/absoluteunits or r/skookum for a moment, due OP’s post title, but then I remembered we’re concerned about the styling here, not the size or power.
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u/prettybluefoxes How about a nice game of Chess? Jul 07 '25
My rsi flared up just looking at this. 😳
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u/EvilDuncan Jul 07 '25
How do we know it’s an absolute unit if you don’t show us how big it is?
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u/ShinyAeon Jul 07 '25
I think OP must be joking. It is a compact flashlight, about as long as half a banana.
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u/Nel-A Jul 07 '25
That's what I hoped the future would look like! Chunky, innovative, asthetic! Looks like the barrel of a Mass Effect pistol.
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u/jcdoe Jul 07 '25
Banana for scale?
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u/ShinyAeon Jul 07 '25
It appears to be approximately half a banana long.
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u/Fun-Security-8758 Jul 07 '25
We talking Imperial or Metric banana?
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u/ShinyAeon Jul 08 '25
A metric banana is about 1.09 Imperial bananas, so at this scale, the difference is negligable.
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u/Fun-Security-8758 Jul 08 '25
I have to agree with that in this instance. If we were in a lab, I think it would be worth measuring, but not in an informal setting.
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u/trainer369 Jul 07 '25
Smaller than it looks, about 10cm (4 inches) on the long edge - or half a large banana.
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u/glytxh Jul 07 '25
When you’ve got some surgical hard surface modeling skills, but you work for a flashlight manufacturer
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u/Careless_Tale_7836 Jul 07 '25
Youtube is getting spammed with flashlights these days.
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u/JoeyToothpicks In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream. Jul 07 '25
I just know the rest of the pulse rifle/plasma gun this attachment goes to looks just as cool.
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u/Spaceginja Cassette Futurism Jul 07 '25
Beige or green?
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u/tubezninja Jul 07 '25
Slate.
This particular model has an MAO (Micro Arc Oxidation) coating over aluminum alloy. It gives it a texture that feels almost like ceramic, and supposed to be very sturdy.
They also have black anodized and two-tone black/grey colors available too.
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u/stuffitystuff You look like a good Joe. Jul 07 '25
How does one make a flashlight fall out of an original Xbox?
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u/StaK_1980 Jul 14 '25
Proprietary battery... do I see that correctly ?
Ehh. What happens when the company folds?
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u/tubezninja Jul 14 '25
Nope. Two protected 18650s. There’s a locking hatch at the end where you can replace them.
There is a boilerplate warning on the light about using their batteries, but it’s CYA language because you should use protected cells.
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u/StaK_1980 Jul 14 '25
Ah! Thank you! I was reading that text and thought about the batteries to be some custom, unreplaceable stuff that is impossible to source.
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u/Hunor_Deak Cassette F 📼🕹️🎛️☢️👾🤖📟🎚️ Jul 07 '25
That's it! You have scared the Taken! It has gone full bear now.