# Pen light

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pen-light/674122>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 17, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pen-light/674122 "2013-11-17T16:23:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Longshanks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Longshanks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Longshanks)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pen-light/674122/1 "2013-11-17T16:23:13Z")

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Does anyone know of any sites that sell pens which double as flashlights?

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**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pen-light/674122/2 "2013-11-17T16:53:42Z")

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Searching Google’s “shopping” tab for “[flashlight pen](https://www.google.com/#q=flashlight+pen&tbm=shop)” gets me several options.

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**Author:** ![Artemis\_Tardis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Artemis\_Tardis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Artemis_Tardis)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pen-light/674122/3 "2013-11-17T23:26:57Z")

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Deal Extreme is a good option, but I always end up buying way more stuff than I intended to.

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pen-light/674122/4 "2013-11-18T00:23:12Z")

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Almost any hardware, drug or general-merchandise store should sell penlights.

In addition to the old-school doctor type ones that look like pen-sized laser pointers (to reverse history a bit), I have had pens that had both laser pointers and white-LED “flashlights” built into the head.

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**Author:** ![j\_sum1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pen-light/674122/5 "2013-11-18T11:14:48Z")

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> [@demian\_travis](#):
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> Deal Extreme is a good option, but I always end up buying way more stuff than I intended to.

This.  
But it always stuff that I _really_ need.