Blackout lights, where you need them...

A nighttime power outage can be a real inconvenience if you're not prepared - say, if you only have a flashlight in some faraway drawer, and you don't even know if the batteries are fresh. The Power-Failure Light (via Gizmodo), on the other hand, tries to make a blackout as much of a non-event as possible. By turning on automatically when power is lost, and providing light in the same places as when the power is on, the best-case scenario is that a user wouldn't even notice the change except for a slight dimming! It looks like the design has taken care of the other possible pitfalls: the light only comes on when the power goes out, not just when the light is turned off; it doesn't come on during daytime, as indicated by a photocell; and, the batteries charge themselves when the power is on, so they never need replacing. Overall, not bad - even if, from the looks of it, there won't be many lamps onto which this thing can fit! Oh well, can't win'em all...