In July of last year, we talked about the Pinkest Pink color from artist Stuart Semple. If we visit his official page, we will find other colors with similar properties, but in that catalog appears something else: LIT, a pigment whose glow can be "charged" with light or heat. Now, what is its absorption limit? The Action Lab channel decided to find out by covering the pigment with the most powerful general-use flashlight in the world...
There was a time when the title of "the most powerful flashlight in the world" belonged to units that barely reached 4,000 lumens. Today, we can see on YouTube custom designs that easily exceed 100,000 lumens, but if you're only interested in buying a flashlight without hacking or modifying anything, then one of the best options is the Imalent DX80 with 32,000 lumens, available on Banggood for $380. If you're wondering what to do with it besides lighting up, an alternative is to buy a bottle of LIT, the brightest pigment in the world. LIT was designed by Stuart Semple, the same one as Pinkest Pink, who is still in conflict with Anish Kapoor. If you combine the most powerful flashlight with the brightest paint, the result is a video like The Action Lab's:
By far, the most important feature of the LIT pigment is that its glow can be charged with a light source, or a heat source. Semple explains on the official site that LIT will glow for a maximum of 12 hours (depending on the final mix), and unlike other fluorescent objects, there are no limits on the number of recharges for LIT. Even with a very thin layer of paint on a piece of cardboard, the flashlight leaves LIT so bright that it seems powered by batteries. The "radioactive green" looks wonderful, and the reaction also reached the bottle.
Another experiment pitted the flashlight against Semple's Black 2.0, but despite its deep black, the flashlight emerged victorious. Let's recap: $380 for the Imalent DX80, and just ten British pounds for the LIT pigment, which is currently sold out (shipping will resume on February 19).
