The Shift Light

Three in the morning, lights off

You need to read a pump, check a line, or find the one thing that rolled under the bed
— and the overhead switch wakes the whole room. The usual answer is a penlight held
in your teeth. This is the other answer.

What’s in your hand

• Magnetic silicone clip — folds over a collar, a pocket edge or a badge strap and holds by magnet. No pin, no hole in your top.
• One button — press on, press off. Big enough to find with a gloved thumb.
• USB-C — charges from the same cable as your phone. Light enough that you stop noticing it.
• Seven colours — white, pink, red, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue.

Points where you look

Clipped high on the chest it throws light down onto whatever your hands are doing,
which is the whole point: both hands stay on the task, and nobody in the next bed
gets a face full of ceiling light.

Care

Wipe the silicone with your usual surface wipe. Keep the charging port dry, and charge
it on the drive home rather than on the unit.