The owl-eyed pocket light that twists its head and charges without a cable

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Two round eyes stare out of the Wuben X3, and the whole head swivels a half circle to aim them, a strange little flashlight with a stranger silhouette. Amazon has the charging-base edition at $28.49 today, down from $39.99 in Wuben’s own Amazon store.

The cut comes to $11.50, roughly 29 percent off the store’s own list price on the same listing. The design does the persuading. Every other light in this price band looks like a tiny tube, and this one looks like a pocket robot.

Inside the box sits the charging base, a lanyard with a USB-C plug, and the light itself in a molded tray. You set the X3 on the base and it charges wirelessly, no port cover to pry open at midnight, and the base keeps it topped up between uses on any desk.

Wuben X3 EDC Flashlight with Charging Base
700 lumens · 180° rotating head · wireless charging base
Price: $28.49 $39.99 (save $11.50, 29% off)
Where to buy: Buy on Amazon

Wuben rates the white LED at 700 lumens on Turbo, with a Samsung LH351D emitter chosen for high color rendering. The second eye glows red. That red LED is a Luminus SST10, and it runs on its own low and high settings for night walks. The beam reaches 102 meters on the maker’s card, plenty for a backyard fence line or a dark parking row.

A head that turns all the way around

The head rotates 180 degrees, so the beam points forward from a pocket clip or straight down from a shelf edge. A magnetic base sticks the body to a fridge door, a car hood, or the side of a breaker box, and the clip turns a cap brim into a headlamp mount. Your phone weighs three times more, and it does less in the dark.

Build quality is plastic, not aluminum, and the whole light weighs 70 grams at 70 by 35 by 21 millimeters. The IP65 rating covers rain and splashes, and Wuben leaves submersion off the table entirely.

The flat, rectangular body slides into a coin pocket and stays put. Four clicks locks it. A clip rides on the back for a backpack strap or a belt. The owl face makes it a giftable object instead of another black tube.

Aim it under a sink and the swivel head throws light across the pipes instead of into your eyes. Stick it to the underside of a hood and a dead battery swap stops being a two-person job.

Modes that stretch from one lumen to fifty hours

Four white levels run from a 1-lumen low up to Turbo, and the printed card in the box lists 50 hours on that lowest setting. Low sips power. High gives 150 lumens for two hours. Double-click jumps straight to Turbo from off or on, and the light remembers the last mode you used. A long press from off wakes the red LED first, the setting that keeps your night vision intact on a trail or in a tent.

Strobe and SOS ride along on the white side only. The tray even prints the full spec card under the lid, runtimes and all.

Red high runs 80 lumens stepping down to 30, and red low stretches to 30 hours on the card. The blue indicator blinks while charging and goes dark the moment the cell tops off. Other editions swap the base for a 3,000mAh charging box that also tops up a phone on the road. That built-in 1,000mAh cell never swaps out, so the light’s whole life rides on one sealed battery.

Wuben’s own store lists this dock edition at $47.59, which makes Amazon’s $28.49 the cheapest route to the same light by a wide margin. A small battery icon on the body shows the charge state at a glance. Black Friday timing helps the gift math, since a light this small lands in stockings and glove boxes without a second thought.

Colors run black, white, blue, and green across the editions, and the white shell glows in the dark after lights-out. The battery stays put.

It arrives locked, so unwrap it and click four times before judging the brightness.

Wuben X3 EDC Flashlight with Charging Base
700 lumens · 180° rotating head · wireless charging base
Price: $28.49 $39.99 (save $11.50, 29% off)
Where to buy: Buy on Amazon

Buy it if your pockets want a light that aims itself, sticks to metal, and charges on a base with no cable fuss. Skip it if you need a swappable battery or a deeper discount than 29 percent. The base edition is the one on sale. A spare keychain light stops being a spare at this price.

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