News: Gadget Review a blog that reviews and/or tests new innovative products on the market blogs our Led Night Light.

“If you need a night light to illuminate part of your house, such as the top of the stairs, you could get an ordinary night light that plugs into an electric wall outlet. However, this will only illuminate the area around the wall outlet. If you need to illuminate a larger area without turning on a brighter and more intrusive light you might be interested in the adjustable NiteTrip instead.

Unlike traditional night lights that plug into a wall outlet, the NiteTrip runs off three AAA batteries. This allows you to place the NiteTrip anywhere you need”

To read the full review at Gadget Review.com

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I’ve employed a young engineer, with a masters degree to look at the prototype circuit and produce a schematic so i can include it when I file the patent. I intend to alter the design so as to make it my own. After working with him until late in the evening, I received the schematic tonight. He is very bright, maybe too bright. He has offered to do the work in exchange for me buying him a development kit from Texas Instruments to build a wireless car finder

Just think you get a fantasitic cool blue light that illuminates what you want it to, best yet its a energy saving option with its motion sensor settings and LED technology.

You get all this for a reasonable $24.95 and 40% goes to the EEF fund!

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It is amazing to see how smart our kids are and what they know and understand about business.  From just the thinking about it stage to where we are today they take this seriously and always provide such amazing incites and ideas.

Instead of coming home from school and turning on the tv or games, they rush to see if a sale has been made or if one of their ideas is building a following. Its like a daily  Christmas they are so excited.

Another note is that their giving side has come out too.  The kids voted on participating in our local school system Lights for Education where we donated 40% of the profits from sales made to district wide families.

I think this ties into the saying the “family that plays together stays together” well I think that a “family who shares, works and explores together, grows together”

Inspirations from flipping the on switch

While watching “The American Inventor”, my son Davis looked up with those wide, curious, blue eyes and said “Dad, we can invent something way better.” I have to admit, I was thinking the same thing. Some of the inventions on the show seemed like a complete waste of time, money, and energy. Disposable bed sheets? A bicycle with a seat on the handle bars? A bib to wear in the car when you are eating? Come on! “Okay son, let’s do it”, I said half heartedly. Soon after that, ideas began to float around at the dinner table or in the car. How about an electric matt to keep the dogs off of the furniture? Or a folding backpack equipped with everything you need for school, etc. We quickly realized that coming up with a viable product was harder than it looked. Either it was already in the marketplace or it was just a bad idea!

Listening and paying attention to your own needs or problems can lead to invention.

Our invention ideas went into the back of my brain and laid there swirling around for awhile. Then, it was a late night trip to the bathroom that began to set the real wheels in motion. As I pulled myself out of bed in a sleeping stupor and shuffled off to do my business, I had to flip on our bright as the sun, overhead bathroom light. I was immediately shocked into a fully awake, and ticked-off, state. I felt like I was in the psycho movie with the blaring screechy music ringing in my ears! It was so disturbing. I decided that I did not want to ever be awakened or shocked by blinding light again. So the next night I did away with the lights altogether. After going to the bathroom by brail for the next several weeks, my wife indicated that this was not going to be a good long term solution unless I would like to start cleaning the bathroom on a daily basis!

Started looking for a solution to my problem other than wearing sunglasses at nite.

I then started to look for nightlights of any kind to help solve my little problem. Unsightly, socket sucking, and cheesy were the only things I could find. So I went about building my own. I went to Target and bought a $7 LED lamp and started to use it. Because my toilet is in a room without any electrical outlets, I attached an extension cord to the light and ran it into the bathroom. Functional, but not very nice to look at. Lets just say, my wife was not pleased with this solution either.

Cutting the cords = Out of need comes invention

It occurred to me that the light needed to be portable; battery operated and have some motion activation to make it right. I researched on the web and found components that would allow me to modify the $7 Target light and make it what I envisioned as the perfect solution. It was the first time since I left college in 1987 that I actually used my electrical engineering degree. I found my old electronics tackle box with test equipment and went about designing the circuitry for my “smart” light. It was about this time, I told the family.

First think tank meeting of the board (aka family) at the kitchen table

After the laughter died down, they were enthusiastic and very supportive. We started brainstorming on a name for the product – the “bowls-eye” and the “p-light” were the top contenders. We unofficially started calling it the p-light because, yes, it helps you see when you go for a pee! And thus began my obsession with building the best “p-light” known to mankind!

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