“Hell yes! It’s exactly where I thought and ‘Click!’ it works! Damn!!!”
Brighter. Lighter. Smaller. Lipstick-sized cylinders capable of cutting through pitch-blackness, flashlights have become marvels of technology and efficiency. Of course, when you’re stuck in a midnight rainstorm and need to change a tire, you’ll never find the thing.
The yellow-handled, 2D cell flashlight is another of those designs which, decades later and despite more advanced alternatives, remains unsurpassed. Sure, LEDs have replaced incandescent bulbs, battery life has been radically extended and modern plastics have made them light, watertight and bulletproof but the basic concept–a yellow cylinder too bold not to notice, to big to misplace–is as valid today as when it first appeared over a half-century ago. In the dark night of your soul when you reach out in desperation, the big yellow flashlight won’t let you down. Nothing else matters.