PRAXIS PREPARED. Woo! Everybody, this is PRAXIS. In this video, I want to share with you a secret, well, at least not very well-known way of acquiring free night vision equipment. I'm going to share that with you guys at the end of the video. But first, what I want to share with you is this flashlight. Now, I do not want to turn into like the flashlight review channel, but recently I did a video about a headlamp made by the same company through night, and that headlamp was insane. It took such a beating and it just kept on going and going and going. I was really surprised by how rugged that thing was. So, I highly recommend that, but I know there were a lot of viewers who commented that that looks great, but I'm not really a headlamp kind of person. I'm a headlamp kind of person, but I know a lot of you guys weren't. So, the company asked me if I would do another product review for another one of their headlamps, and I said, I don't want to become like the flashlight review company, but I said, I'll do one more for you guys because that headlamp was so kicking the awesome. And I know a lot of people wanted to hear about a regular flashlight. So, there's a flashlight that they make. Again, the company is called through night, and this is not sure about that. This is either the T14T or maybe the Ti4T, or that could be a lowercase L, the T lowercase L for it. Anyway, it's their new slim profile flashlight. It fits really well into a bugle bag or something like that. And while this one does not have the crazy ruggedness of that headlamp, for example, for impact and stuff like that, it says you can basically drop it. That's what it's rated for, but here, why don't we try it? Let's see how high can this go up. Okay. That went off about 12 feet or so in the air. And it still works. Okay. So, you know, it can take a little bit of shocks to it, but it's not made to, like the headlamp, I was like whipping it at rocks, and it survived it. So, this thing is not made for that kind of thing, but you know, we can take a little bit of bumping around. It's also waterproof. And what I like about this is that the features that they build in are really kind of cool. When you click at the first time, it starts in just a really low power mode. It's just they call it Firefly Mode. And I am a big fan of just a little bit of light. Like when you're outside at night, you know, just, you know, using your night vision. Sometimes you might want to have a little bit of extra light. And I hate it when you turn on a flashlight, and it's like boom, you know, this huge pile of light, you do whatever you need to do, you turn it off, and then your eyes have all adjusted to the brightness. And it takes a while for you to get your night vision back. With this, it's just a little bit of light, so you can do whatever you need to do. Now, if you want more, it's just half clicks. That goes to medium, then the brightest setting, and then it goes back to the Firefly Mode, and then medium, and then the brightest setting, if you have to click it one more time, it goes into a strobe mode. So that's pretty cool. The headlamp had also an SOS mode, which I thought was kind of cool. You know, the strobe is a way of getting attention as well. But yeah, it's just a cool product made by ThruNight, and I figured I'd share it with you guys, because that headlamp was rocking. And they seem to make good stuff, at least as far as I can tell, and I know some people want to hear about a flashlight. So this is a pretty cool one, and again, pretty small fits in to your bug up bag really easily. So now, let's talk about a freeway to get night vision gear. And to demonstrate this to you, I'm going to cut to nighttime, and share with you. When you hear what I'm going to say, you're going to be like, ah, pff, okay, whatever. But listen to it, think about it, because not everything has to be solved with technology, and electronics and everything. There are some great things that, you know, are just right there in nature, nature gave us, and they can do a pretty good job. So listen to it, try it out, try it out for yourself, and then see what you think about it. Okay, so let's cut to night, and we'll talk about absolutely free night vision technology. Okay, and here we are in nighttime. Now, I will be totally honest. It's not actually night, it's getting close tonight, but I'm a photographer, and I know the cameras need light, and order to capture an image. So I'm kind of pushing it to make it look a little bit more like nighttime, but let's imagine that it really is night, and this is very applicable to real night. So what I'm going to say is that you don't need anything to see it night. You don't need technology in order to see in the evening when it's dark out. Your eyes have a natural ability to adjust to light, and I think a lot of people forget that, and a lot of people don't give their eyes the opportunity to be able to see it. It's the opportunity to adjust to the dark so that they realize how much power you have right in these little devices that are stuck right in your head for free. If you let your night vision in your eyes adjust for like five minutes, ten minutes, certainly fifteen minutes. A lot of people I think would be really surprised at how well humans are able to see in the dark. When I was younger, when I was high school age, a lot of times me and my friends would go out to the woods, and we would just go hiking in the dark at night, and it's amazing how well you can see once your eyes get adjusted to it. If you're using a flashlight, and I'm not anti-flash light, there are plenty of situations where a flashlight is kind of cool. I mean, if you want to go into your pack and get something, it's kind of shady in there at night. Yeah, pop the flashlight on for a little bit, and do what you need to do. But for the majority of situations, there's moonlight, there's starlight, there's just ambient light from light pollution that filters down, and while an environment may look very, very dark at the beginning, when you first go outside, if you let your eyes adjust to it, you'd be astounded with how far you can see. Because that's the thing, if you're using a flashlight, you are limiting yourself to only being able to see in that immediate area, because your eyes become dependent on that flashlight, and you can only see as far as that flashlight can throw. And for most flashlights, for most practical purposes, that's probably like 10, 20 feet. I mean, you can shine it off in some direction, but when you're kind of just using it to see the ground in front of you, you really are essentially blind to everything that is off in some other direction. Whereas if you're using the natural, free night vision that's right in your eyeballs, you're able to see for miles and miles, because the moonlight is everywhere. The starlight is everywhere. So you don't have that sort of same limitation where you can only see this tiny little area right around you. In addition to that, if you're moving through an area, you don't want people to necessarily know that you're there, and I'm not talking about criminal activity, activity, I'm talking about like, you know, like Mad Max, you know, without real a lie. There's a crash, and there's like, you know, crazy, you know, whatever people. You may want to move through an area and not necessarily attract the attention of people. Well, nothing attracts attention, like lights. You know, that's why we put them, you know, flashing strobe lights on radio towers, and you know, flashing lights on cars, and you know, lights attract attention. And if you don't want attention, not having a light is a great way of doing that. So give it a try. I mean, before you go say, I was like, you know, thank you very much, praxis. But I am fine with my flashlight. I think I will just stick to that. Give it a try. Give it a try before you, you know, you poo poo it and say, it's like, you know, things are fine the way they are. Give it, give a try to something that's worked for millennia, for human beings, you know, even before, you know, even when we had fire and things like that, we were still using our natural eyes to move through the landscape, and using these tools that are for free. Right up in your head, not everything has to be a tech solution for everything. There are a lot of things that are just innate, and we have them there. And you know, you don't always have to, you know, use money and products and gear to solve your problems. A lot of times, you have the stuff right at your fingertips, right at your eyeball tips, and it's there for you to use. So give it a try. If you haven't ever done something like this before, get out there. I mean, start like maybe on like a night with a, there's plenty of moon or something like that. You know, you know, try at that level. But, you know, once you, once you experience that, try it when there's like a half a moon or a quarter of a moon or, you know, no moon at all. And I think a lot of times you'll be really surprised with how much you can see, which is the tiniest bit of light, and these really amazing organs that we have right in our face. I think a lot of people forget how capable they can really be. That's it. Thanks for watching. Please subscribe and tune in every Friday at 430 New York time for a new video. 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