Designer Miyoshimasato has designed a device that resembles what a flashlight might look like if the Cupertino bad-boys had designed one (that is if the white color of their Apple headquarters doesn’t cause a reflective faux day light at all hours, like some sort of tech inspired Alaskan winter). The iLight has a sleek, buttonless body, that would rely on touch navigation to power on the ray of light.

To increase of decrease the luminance, just flick your finger up or down the panel. The glowing Apple logo shows you how much battery life is left in the iLight, which can be charged with its built-in USB port. — Andrew Dobrow 

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Don’t you just hate it when flashlights run out of battery? The natural thing to do would be turning it off and shaking it, hoping that the chemical paste in there will somehow mix and squeeze a few drops of juice left. Japanese company Daisaku-shoji is selling this battery-free flashlight that can shine for a good 20 minutes with half a minute of shaking. The basic principal is just the highschool physics of magnetic induction. The best part is that this thing is 300m waterproof and floats on water. Drop tests showed that it wouldn’t fall apart even when dumped from 1.2m to hit concrete. These flashlights are selling in Japan for $80, in fact, a lot of the Japanese disciplinery forces have started carrying these around. — Sam Chan

NightStar Magnetic Force Flashlight [Daisaku-shoji]

You’ll never have to replace dead batteries in the Everlife/Faraday Flashlight because it doesn’t need batteries. That’s right, the Everlife flashlight does not use batteries; rather, it uses electro-magnetic induction, meaning that it gets its power from you shaking the magnets back and forth inside the flashlight. It has to be shaken for about a minute whenever its completely drained, and only about 30 seconds for 5 minutes of light if it has some juice in it. This is perfect for all those times you desperately need light, but it just so happens that all the flashlights in your house are dead. This little beast is said to shine a bright blue/white LED up to a mile away, just in case you need to look for something a mile away… A few other pluses to this already awesome flashlight is that it is waterproof (it floats) and indestructible (they run it over with a car in a video). One major drawback to this light, however, is that it has a very strong magnetic field, meaning you can’t bring it near computers, so you can’t make a laptop that doesn’t need batteries. For $20 you can get an Everlife/Faraday flashlight and a free mini one, which is basically a steal for this great flashlight. Definitely worth purchasing because dead flashlights are a bust and buying batteries over and over again is even worse. — Nick Rice

Everlife/Faraday Flashlight [via Gearlog]