My girlfriend had a complaint one morning recently. We were both leaving the house very early and it was still dark. We had a hard time locking the door from the outside and were laughing about our difficulties. She turned to me and said what about a flashlight attached to the actual key. The keychain lights would not have helped us, it would have required two hands and before coffee we were both struggling with even one.

That weekend we headed up to Portland, Maine for some away from the city time and while she was looking for holiday gifts, I was passively looking for her keylight as a holiday gift. Unfortunately I didn’t find anything, so I thought there might be an opportunity there.

I was skeptical that no one had done it before but I had all the materials to do a prototype. However, even before playing with my LEDs I did a quick search online, only to find many many exist. Sure, none had my design and I thought mine would be better but none of the existing products that were the same had made it to the mass market.

If I was to pursue this product it would be about distribution and sales, which is fine if that is the type of company I would like to build. As you might have guessed it has now become a page in my idea notebook that will get very little attention in the near future.