Where to buy:
- Glowproducts.com: Box of 50 Northern Light glowsticks $34.50 (12h, 30m, 5m)
- Extremeglow.com: Box of 50 Omniglow Glowsticks $52.50 (12h, 30m, 5m)
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For most recreational and part-time glowstickers, the only time people stop to compare the quality of one glow stick brand to another is when a glow stick leaks inadvertently on a dance floor. Cheap novelty sticks sold for an over inflated price is a common fixture at clubs and raves. However, serious glowstickers (from glowsticking.com and other web sites) have learned thus to purchase their glow sticks online for a much cheaper price than what is usually offered at parties, clubs, and raves to fufill their own insatiable need for glowsticks.
Omniglow brand glow sticks have been the mainstay of serious glowstickers, owing to the quality, durability, and the unrivaled brightness of their high-intensity and ultra high-intensity line of glow sticks. However, they are also the most expensive line of glow sticks due to their use by the military and for industrial purposes.
Recently, I received an email from Glowproducts.com asking for a comparison with the first non-Omniglow brand ultra high-intensity glow stick manufactured (according to the wrapper) by Northern Light Products. Given that their price for their glow sticks are (at the time of the writing) $0.69 cents a piece compared to the lowest price for Omniglow glow sticks found online at $1.10 a piece, naturally my curiosity was piqued.
They sent me their full line of glow sticks, but in this comparison article I will be comparing their 12 hour green and yelow, 30 minute yellows, and 5 minute products directly against Omniglow brand glow sticks of the same type as these are by far the most commonly used glow sticks by serious glowstickers. In addittion, the 30 minute yellows and 5 minute oranges from Omniglows are known as the brightest possible.
First impressions
It had to happen eventually. First it was the the hard drive based Ipod, then the hard drive based camcorder, and now, the hard drive based turntable from Numark. The benefits are obvious. All of the versatility of a CD based turntable with fully indexable and searchable library of music. Oh yeah, it uses a real vinyl record on top to simulate the feel. It also reads CD’s. Amazing. No more getting your biyatches to lug your vinyl library that will probably get messed up from parties with the humidity of a South american banana republic. But then again, this thing probably costs the GDP of a small South American banana republic.