Time was - back in the heady, now vintage days of last century - having a torch meant something the size of a half baguette in your hand that probably ran on three or more hard to find, heavy and expensive C or D-cell batteries.
Even at full brightness, you'd be lucky to illuminate the other side of a room in any meaningful way - and the chances were equally likely that when you really needed the torch to work, the bulb itself would have mysteriously blown since the last time you used it, and you were never likely to source a replacement, so into a drawer the whole thing went.
Fast forward to the modern day and now we have torches (or flashlights, as our US cousins prefer to call them) that are so bright you can practically dazzle astronauts onboard the ISS. Tiny, powerful torches that fit not just in the palm of your hand, but in the coin pocket of your favourite jeans.
The Fenix E09R is one such torch. It is tiny. It is mighty. With one of these...