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May 28, 2009

Gear & Gadgets

Flashlight makes a compact emergency kit and third brake light fills your hitch

Life Gear

Security kit
Life Gear's wind-up flashlight not only provides up to an hour of light from one minute of cranking, its four power options can also be used to charge your cell phone or signal your whereabouts with flashers or a 130-decibel siren. An emergency AM/FM radio and a compass are also part of the glovebox-perfect package.
$25, lifegearcompany.com

Hitch Lite

Third light
When your hitch isn't in use, filling the vacant receiver with a Department of Transportation-approved third brake light. Made from ABS plastic, the Hitch-Lite from Made4You products just slides right into your standard-size hitch receiver and plugs into your existing trailer wiring.
$20, made4uproducts.com

--Wheelbase Communications

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