The Black Friday discount on these headlamps will make you as happy as these people who have been photoshopped to look like they're wearing headlamps

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But seriously, headlamps are useful for way more than just tinkering around inside your PC.

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Energizer Energizer LED Headlamp PRO: was $21.99 now $13.84 at Amazon

Keep both your hands free while working inside your PC, behind your TV, on your car, or while performing emergency surgery in a survival situation. Yes, you will look a bit nerdy wearing a light on your forehead, but it's way better than trying to hold your phone while fishing around for a dropped screw inside your PC case.

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If you're looking for a bit of tech that doesn't cost much but will still have a big impact on your life, raise your hand. Now raise your other hand. You'll notice neither hand is holding a flashlight or a phone because you're wearing the Energizer LED Headlamp Pro.

Once I discovered just how helpful it was to wear a headlamp, I started using mine for a bunch of different reasons. Here's a few things I've used my headlamp for just in the past couple months:

  • Wiggling the connections inside my PC and hoping that fixes my GPU's stuttering problem (it didn't, but I could see real well while I did it)
  • Trying to plug another cable into the back of my TV and discovering, nope, definitely no more free ports
  • Not knowing how fix whatever is wrong with my car engine, but perhaps looking like I'm at least serious about it
  • Trying to find where I put the candles after the last time the power went out, because the power had just gone out again
  • Destroying a wasp's nest in the early morning hours before they'd woken up and become pure evil
  • Investigating that weird noise on the roof the other evening (it was a crow eating part of a dead squirrel)

I've had my headlamp since 2021 and haven't yet had to change the batteries yet, either.

Yes, it does feel supremely dorky to strap a blinding light to your forehead as if you're mining for coal instead of trying to find that screw you dropped while fiddling around inside your PC case, but that feeling goes away immediately when you realize you don't have to hold or prop up your phone's flashlight. You can just get to work with both hands and be able to clearly see what you're doing. Nifty.

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Christopher Livingston
Christopher Livingston
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Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so he'd stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He's also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so he can make up his own.

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