I’d never heard of the Hotligh brand prior to them contacting me to ask if I would be interested in collaborating and testing out their flashlights. Their name was probably an attempt at the words “Hot Light”, dropping the last letter “T” to trademark the name, but its unfortunate that nobody noticed that “ligh” can sound like “lie”.
Name aside, their flashlight came in a black box without accessories, save for a USB-C charging cable. The body is made of sturdy aluminum with a sci-fi style that wouldn’t look out of place in a video game or movie. The flashlight has a flattened blade-style design with a primary spot at the one end, a magnetic tail on the opposite end, and a large flood light on its flat side. It’s a bit too big and heavy to be an appealing EDC light but the flat shape and belt clip, facilitate stowing it in a pocket.
Each of the LED emitters is controlled by its own rubberized button. One press turns on its spot emitter on low and additional taps goes to high mode and then off. The flood button adds an additional UV mode and a double-tap on the flood activates an RBG breatihng mode on the otherwise blue battery indicator strip of small LEDs. Neither button offers mode memory.
In my initial testing both the spot and flood lights output about 1600 lumens but in retesting with a new unit, I found that the output was over 2000 lumens, the HOTLigh wasn’t lying. I find the lack of mode memory the only disappointing aspect in an otherwise great-looking, high-performance modern flashlight.
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Too Much Information live chat show. Today, we’re going to talk about Black Friday Sales with my guests @CyclopsJoeVideos Cyclops Joe and @HillbillyUp American Hillbilly. This video is sponsored by Aura. Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. Go to my link https://aura.com/moondog to get a 14-day free trial and see if any of your data has been exposed.
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Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States. Along with Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season and is the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States.
The term Black Friday used to be a negative description for a Stock Market crash. It first appeared in The New York Times on November 29, 1975 to describe a strong shopping weekend where retailers sales accounting shifted from being “Being in the Red, to being in the Black”. The term caught on in the rest of the country by the late 1980’s.
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This discount store chain began as S. S. Kresge in the late 1890’s and grew to become one of the largest retail chains in the US, rivaling Walmart. After a slow decline throughout the 1990’s it filed for bankruptcy in 2002, later merging with rival Sears, before both folded in late 2019. They closed most of their US locations. Today it exists as an online retailer with only 3 small phyical stores still open.
The LHT 3-12×42 is Discovery Optics’ most affordable crossover scope. This scope has the lightweight, slim profile of a traditional 3-9x hunting scope, with an FFP tactical reticle for precision target shooting. In addition, it features exposed locking turrets and an illuminated reticle.
The LHT’s turrets had some wiggle between each 1/4 MOA click, but the clicks were audible and tactile positive. Its parallax focus can target as close as 7 yards, making it an ideal optic for airgun or rimfire hunters. Its illuminated reticle is twilight bright with highlighted dots at key points.
Optically, it had a good eyebox but was not tack sharp from the center to the outer edge, which showed distortion and softening. Its clarity and brightness dropped off significantly above 10x. The glass also showed some CA at high magnifications. While optically average, the LHT’s features make it a better value than most 3-9x scopes below $150.
4K front and rear camera dashcams are quickly becoming the norm. But the Orbit D400 by Gekogear looks anything but typical. While many 4K dashcams are trying to go with smaller and smaller footprints and tiny displays, the D400 has a huge 11-inch display screen.
The front camera records at a max 4K and its rear camera at a max 1080p. Despite its Sony Starvis sensor and good resolution, the overall footage captured by the D400 is sub-average in quality and detail with newer dashcams. It lacks a wide dynamic range. At night, the D400 footage lacks detail to capture most license plate characters, appearing blown out from glare. Its performance is more in line with sub-$75 budget dashcams.
The D400 display/camera unit straps onto the mirror side of your car’s rearview mirror. The USB-C power cable and rear camera cable plug into the unit from the top. The display screen’s glossy black surface offers a tinted mirror of sorts, allowing you to see rearward as normal. When the display is turned on, it can be used like the digital rearview mirror found in some newer vehicles like Land Rovers, Polestars, and Toyotas. Using it as a digital rear view does take some getting used to and may not be possible for those who require corrective glasses for farsightedness.
The D400’s rear camera comes with over 10ft of connection cable. It is weather-sealed, allowing it to be mounted as an external cam, though that may require professional installation. I chose to use the included 3M adhesive mounting strip to mount onto my rear hatch inside the vehicle.
The D400 display is a touchscreen and can be set to display either the front, rear, or combined cameras. The display only shows a section of the overall camera view. Scrolling the touchscreen, you can virually tilt the view and see the rest of the camera frame. The D400 comes with a 32GB micro SD card and the unit is compatible with up to 128GB cards.
Despite its lack of video detail, the D400 more than makes up for its mediocre camera with its huge and useful display screen. If Gekogear can update the video processing with a patch or a Gen2, the D400 could be a winner as big as its screen.
Too Much Information live chat show. Today, we’re going to talk with some professional computer geeks about the challenges of working in IT. This video is sponsored by Aura. Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. Go to my link https://aura.com/moondog to get a 14-day free trial and see if any of your data has been exposed.
The IT Crowd is a British television sitcom originally broadcast by Channel 4 in 2006, created, written, and directed by Graham Linehan and starring Chris O’Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, and Matt Berry. There was a failed attempt to create a US version of the show after the success of The Office which was also originally a British TV comedy, but the pilot of the US IT Crowd just wasn’t as funny.
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Tim Mooney IT professional from southwest Michigan. Lived in Michigan all my life. I went to college to learn electronics, then worked in IT. I grew up with firearms but got into collecting when I was 21. I’ve been reloading since 1996.
Ian Conolly IT professional in NYC. Unix Systems Administrator with the US Department of the Interior.
This company rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Windows. But largely missed on emerging trends and technologies such as the Internet, digital music, and smart phones. But it did have one of its successes in becoming a dominant company in gaming with the XBox.
The Mantis Titan X is an innovative dry-fire training system. The Titan X was first introduced at SHOT Show 2025 and this mock pistol fuses digital technology with a practical training tool. The Titan X has the built-in motion sensors of the Mantis X10, molded into a 1:1 scale and weight mock-up of a Glock 19 pistol with a realistic trigger.
With each trigger pull, a laser is activated, indicating where a bullet would have impacted on a target. In addition, the Titan X comes with two realistically weighted mock magazines that can be ejected to simulate reloads. Users can pair the Mantis Titan X with the Mantis Pistol/Rifle app and 3rd party laser targeting Apps like Laser Academy.
The user can quickly diagnose and learn from bad trigger habits like slapping, pulling or pushing the trigger, as well as anticipating recoil. Unlike traditional dry-firing, the user does not have to rack and reset their trigger. The Titan X trigger automatically resets, so rapid fire can be simulated. Best of all, this can all be done safely indoors or at home because no real ammo is used. Moreover, you don’t have to pay for ammo, so the Titan X quickly pays for itself.
The Toric UHD 8×32 are the smallest and most compact model in Tract’s high-performance Toric line of binoculars. The Toric feature SCHOTT HT glass, which offer their highest levels of light transference, as well as reduced chromatic aberration. This is the same glass used in premium Zeiss scopes.
The Torics are designed and built in Japan to high standards. Not surprising as Tract’s founders were formerly at Nikon before that brand’s exit from the US sporting optics market. The Toric features ruborized armor around a relatively lightweight magnesium chassis.
Due to crime and mismanagement by the MTA, the multi-million dollar renovation of the Fulton Street Station and shopping center lies mostly empty and deserted of commerce. Only stores that remain open are a donut shop and a newspaper stand. The situation is a sad indictment of the DeBlasio and Adams administrations at NY City Hall and the Cuomo administration in Albany.
Too Much Information live chat show. Today, we’re going to talk about the origin of my online nickname, “Moondog” with Creative Director Adam Chasnow, the man who gave me that nickname. This video is sponsored by Aura. Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. Go to my link https://aura.com/moondog to get a 14-day free trial and see if any of your data has been exposed.
This 3-letter named company is one of the oldest record and music companies in America. Beginning in 1901 as the Victor Recording Machine Company, with its trademark “His Master’s Voice” icon, it was bought by the Radio Corporation of America, from which it gets its legendary 3-letter name.
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Adam Chasnow is a marketing communications creative leader whose focus is finding cultural marketing and media opportunities that connect global brands and services with their audiences. Whether it’s earned media, social, or paid content, he looks for original ways to share a brand’s mission or product benefit through any channel available…
Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), known professionally as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, performer, music theoretician, poet and inventor of musical instruments. His work influenced later composers like Philip Glass.
This 3-letter named company has gone through a number of owners and mergers. General Electric in 1985, Bertlesmann Music Group in 1987, and now Sony BMG in 2004. The record label publishes music for artists such as Milley Cyrus, Alicia Keys, and Doja Cat.
These are items I’ve reviewed for my YouTube channel, so they’re practically brand new. I’m selling them for 50% off retail. Proceeds will go to my son’s class trip to Washington D.C. this Spring.
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