LIGHT BUDDY
Light Buddy, retail $19.95* (www.amazon.com...)
Manufactured by Invigorated Living (http://invigoratedliving.com)
Last updated 08-23-15
The Light Buddy is a versatile new LED reading/task light.
When you see, "reading light", your first thought is probably of one of those big clumsy things that clips into a book and lights up perhaps 30% of the page while the rest remains dark and that you have to delicately tuck the page you just finished reading under the clip, but that just doesn't happen with the Light Buddy.
This is because the Light Buddy is worn around your neck; making it totally handsfree!
The Light Buddy has four phophor white LEDs in it -- two "normal" angle (approx. 20° viewing angle) and two "wide" angle (approx. 90° viewing angle) which can be activated independently of one another. That is, you can have one, two, three, or all four LEDs on!
The Light Buddy comes in a plastic & rubber body with a pair of alloy steel "gooseneck" arms that can easily be bent to fit the individual user or the task at hand -- whether it is lighting up a dim cupboard, making emergency repairs under the hood (bonnet) of an automobile at night, or even finding what's making that squeaky noise behind the toliet.
* Price is for two (2) units; they come two to a package.
SIZE
To use your shiny new (or corroded old 
) Light Buddy, feed it first (see directly below) and THEN you can crack open that copy of War & Peace, take Duke or Dutchess outside for a late-night wee at 1:00am, change the baby's poopy diaper at 3:37am, or what have you.
Sling the unit 'round your neck like the below photograph shows, and operate it as follows:
- Press & release the silvery capsule-shaped button on either or both illuminator heads once to turn the narrow-beam LED in that illuminator head on.
- Press & release the button again to turn the narrow-beam LED off & turn the wide-angle LED on.
- Press & release the button again to turn both LEDs on.
- Press & release the button again to neutralise the unit (all lamps off).
- Just like it reads on the backs of many shampiddle bottles, lather, rinse, repeat -- in other words, pressing & releasing the button again turns the narrow-angle LED on.
Photograph showing the Light Buddy slung 'round my neck as it would be for reading.
This one shows the Light Buddy illuminating the inside of a cupboard; as you can see, the "goosenecks" can easily be bent to have the Light Buddy hanging from a door.
And this pic shows the product illuminating the outside of the cupboard door after it was twisted in such a manner that it could stand on the floor unaided.
To change the batteries in your Light Buddy, turn the unit in such a manner so that the gooseneck arms are aimed at you. In the central portion, you'll see a battery door. Unclip & remove it, buy yourself an airline ticket, fly yourself and the battery door to Hollywood (put it in checked baggage if necessary), bring it to the set of the new movie, Halloween V: Season of the Bitch, have the special effects crew grind it into microscopic bits to have those itty bitty bits implanted into millions of Kotex and Tampax tampons, and...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So save your airfare & just set it aside instead.
If necessary, remove the two used AAA cells and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.
Install two new AAA cells into the compartment, orienting them as shown embossed in the bottom of each chamber.
Reinstall that battery door, and gently press in until you hear & feel it 'click' into place.
Aren't you glad that you didn't fly that battery door to Hollywood where it would get ground into microscopic bits for the sake of some phoney-bologna fake Halloween movie now?
This is a reading and task light in a predominantly plastic body, not a flashlight meant to be thrashed, bashed, trashed, and abused. So I won't try to drown it in the toliet tank, bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a sidewalk in effort to try and expose the bare Metalguilmon - er - the bare Metalguardramon - um that's not it either...the bare Metalterriermon...mmm...the bare Metalkyubimon...er...uh...wait a sec here...THE BARE METAL (guess I've been watching too much Digimon again! - now I'm just making {vulgar slang term for feces} up!!!)...O WAIT!!! WHERE'S THE METAL?!?, let my mother's big dog's ghost, her kitties, my kitties, or my sister's kitty cat piddle (uranate) on it, hose it down with my mother's gun, run over it with a 450lb Quickie Pulse 6 motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a medium ball peen hammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (now I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piñata Central {aka. "Party Central"}), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoñata (also located at Piñata Central) is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analyses, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. Therefore, this section of the Light Buddy's web page will seem a bit more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight that was born to be a flashlight and nothing but a flashlight.
Lifted directly from the Light Buddy web page on Amazon.com (no changes to spelling, grammar, or syntax were made):
ENDLESS USES - The ideal reading light for bed time, flexible automotive underhood repair light, LED work light, bicycle light & closet light. The perfect sewing light, night light, grill light, dog walking light, emergency light and good old fashion flash light. Wear it around your neck, hang it, wrap it or position it.
BEND ANYWAY YOU LIKE - Made from high quality materials the 2 Super-Flex steel alloy wire arms surrounded by soft rubber piping can be moved into position you desire to suit your needs.
4 WHITE SUPER BRIGHT 8000 MCD LED LIGHTS - 1 Spot LED plus 1 Wide-Angle LED on each side for maximum brightness of 50 lumens.
TURN ON 1, 2, 3 OR ALL FOUR LED's AT ONCE- multiple light modes. Use Low Beam or High Beam for Extra-Wide & powerful area illumination.
BE CONFIDENT WITH EXTRA-LONG LIFE BATTERY LIFE - powered by 2 AAA batteries (not included) the Light Buddy will last for hours and hours. Replacement Guarantee.
Beam terminus photograph (narrow beam) of the product illuminating the pages of the book, Planet LED (A Coffee Table Book)" .
Beam terminus photograph (wide beam) of the product illuminating the pages of the book, Planet LED (A Coffee Table Book)" .
Beam terminus photograph (narrow & wide beams) of the product illuminating the pages of the book, Planet LED (A Coffee Table Book)" .
Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in this light.
Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in this light; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 445nm and 455nm to pinpoint native emission peak wavelength, which is 445.170nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at buddy.txt
USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.
A beam cross-sectional analysis would normally appear here, but the ProMetric System
that I use for that test was destroyed by lightning in mid-July 2013. 
TEST NOTES:
Test units were sent by Dan C. of Invigorated Living on 08-13-15, and were received on the afternoon of 08-20-15.
The clip for the battery door on the unit I selected for testing became broken when I was installing the batteries for the first time; that's why you see exposed batteries in almost all of the product photographs. I'm going to consider this as an unfortunate fluke; however if the clip on the second unit becomes busted in the same manner, that will be noted in the, "CONS " section below and the Light Buddy will be derated a bit.
The product still retains full functionality though, and no interruption to testing is expected to occur as a result.
UPDATE: 00-00-00
PROS:
More than just another reading light; unit has multiple uses as a task-specific light as well.
Uses batteries that are common and relatively inexpen$ive
NEUTRAL:
Battery type required is misprinted on the packaging materials as AA cells, not AAA cells
Some backspill from the illuninator heads may offend some users
CONS:
Considering that the Light Buddy is intended for indoor and OUTDOOR use (e.g., camping, hiking, automotive repairs, etc.), water-resistance could have been given a higher priority
MANUFACTURER: Invigorated Living
PRODUCT TYPE: Flexible-arm reading/task light
LAMP TYPE: Phosphor white LED
No. OF LAMPS: 4 (2x normal angle, 2x wide angle)
BEAM TYPE: Medium spot w/soft corona (normal); medium flood (wide)
REFLECTOR TYPE: Shiny chrome; cosmetic functionality only
SWITCH TYPE: Pushbutton on/mode change/off on each light head
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic w/ rubber-covered metal "goosenecks"
BEZEL: None; LEDs inset into hosels for them
BATTERY: 2x AAA cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND DIET DR. PEPPER-RESISTANT: Very light splatter-resistance at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡UN TRUCO O CONVITE GOER DISFRAZADO DE UN GHOUL MIEDO GRANDE VA AL BAÑO EN UNA CADENA DE LUCES DE HALLOWEEN, NO!!! 
ACCESSORIES: None
SIZE: 309.8mm (12.2") L x 48.26mm (1.9") Dia.
WEIGHT: 46g (1.620 oz.) incl. batteries
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: Unknown/not stated
WARRANTY:
PRODUCT RATING:
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