Some days, I go, “Damn, I need an interesting image for Photo of the Day!” And then, much like an intrepid National Geographic photographer who risks life and limb capturing exciting photographs of our wild world, I snap off a shot of whatever I can find in my house … like this flashlight sitting on my desk, a move that allowed me to avoid having to actually get out of my chair.

Zan got this for Christmas, from my Dad, I think. I’ve used it a few times, and really like both its compact size (about four inches long, I’d guess) and the brightness of the light it emits … which I didn’t notice until about a week ago was produced by not a single light bulb, a la traditional flashlights, but rather by a cluster of super-bright LEDs.

OK, so maybe 2010 hasn’t proven to be the age of flying cars and “Star Trek”-like teleportation we all expected as children back in the late 1900s … but, hey: cool flashlight.