Product Description

Kensington Flylight Notebook USB 2.0 Light 33120 - With its small lightweight design, the Kensington FlyLight notebook light is the perfect companion for the executive or student on the go. This small, flexible gooseneck light plugs into your notebook's USB port and uses only 90 seconds per hour of your PC's battery. Eight ultra-bright LEDs light up your work, and you can use the built-in dimmer for gentle, long-lasting illumination anywhere?on a plane, in a presentation room, or while relaxing in bed.

Product Details

• Color: BLACK
• Brand: Kensington
• Model: 33120
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 22.44" h x 68.90" w x 96.46" l, .32 pounds

Features

• 8 ultrabright LEDs deliver clean, white light
• Flexible gooseneck puts light where it's needed
• Built-in dimmer switch gives you precise brightness control
• Powered by USB port; draws less than 90 seconds of battery power per hour of use
• Efficient LEDs burn for more than 100,000 hours of continuous use

Amazon.com Product Description
The Kensington 33120 Fly Light 2.0 will help you see your keys, wherever you are. Whether you are in a darkened boardroom, or just working through the night, this Kensington USB notebook light plugs in to an open USB port to provide illumination so you can see your keys, without draining your battery. The FKensington 33120 is powered by its USB connection so no batteries are required, and features eight ultra-bright LEDs that deliver clean, white light, with a built-in dimmer switch so you have precise control over its brightness. This unit is constructed with a flexible neck that positions light where it is needed, and a long-lasting, bulb-free design. The Kensington 33120 is small enough to take anywhere, and has a minimal power consumption that uses less than 90 seconds of battery charge per hour used.

Customer Reviews

Good, but a bit short of perfect.
This is an excellent USB light. Too bad it has one glaring design deficiency that keeps it from being darned close to perfect.

Eight LEDs provide an abundance of light. There's a switch allowing just four or all eight to be used. Frommy testing, I'll be using the four LED option most of the time.

This is also where the design problem comes in - and it is a significant problem.

Presumably to save a few pennies, Kensington opted not to include a reflector of any kind. At this price, unusally high for a USB keyboard lamp, Kensington certainly has the leeway to have spent the money on design and the few pennies per unit to include a reflector in the finished product.

Instead the LEDs jut straight out of the flat plastic surface. The light pattern is very hot, excessively so. The center of the light field is very bright, but also very narrow and relatively small. Even on a small netbook keyboard with the lamp fully extended, the bright light area covers only half the keyboard. Falloff of the illumination is very drastic from the center.

While there is adequate light overall, the center is lit so brightly, that the eye is fooled into thinking that the areas outside the center are dimmer than they are.

I can see why so many people complain about this. I think many overstate the issue, but at core, the complaint is valid. Kensington shortchanged itself and its customers by not including a reflector in the design. The design keeps he FlyLight from being a five-star product.

The stalk iis good. It holds the lamp in the position you set it. Everything rolls up into a compact package that will fit in practically any carrying case.

Overall, a pretty good value. Overpriced, one really poor design component, but puts out lots of light the and on/off switch is really handy.

Jerry

Narrow beam but good for what I need
This USB light does illuminate just one side of the keyboard, and I'd not want to type with it in the dark. The Amazon image showing the light shining on 95% of the keyboard is exaggerating. I am giving it 5 stars because I needed a light to shine on the left side of my keyboard while I play the World of Warcraft, and this light is exactly what I was looking for. The dimmer switch does not make a lot of difference in the brightness of the lamp, but this is not a problem for me. The light does not put any glare on the monitor. I am using it with a desktop computer and I have it plugged into a USB hub on my monitor stand. This is a good lamp for my needs.

Good Product
I had no idea how much I needed this until I got mine. I find myself using it in situations I never expected.