A company named OccuNomix Int. Inc. markets a flashing safety armband made from an electroluminescent strip powered by 2 AAA bats. that operates for more than 225 hours and is visible up to 5000 ft.. The light is yellow-green. I bought mine from a safety catalogue. They are advertised as being useful for road construction workers. I contacted the co. and asked if they would be interested in retooling the battery case to be sumersible rather than water resistant. I mentioned that there could be a market for sea kayakers and they wrote back that they werent interested in redesigning their product. This technology could be easily incorporated right into a PFD or helmet or even a hat or the boat itself. Anyone interested in tinkering with this can contact occnomix_at_aol.com and ask for the "WAY_TO_GLOW" #830 safety armband. It seems to have a better potential for boaters than leds. No? *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue May 23 2000 - 15:44:43 PDT
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