INDIANA JONES
LIGHT-UP SPOON
Indiana Jones Light-Up Spoon, retail $ (Free*)
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 11-09-20
The Indian Jones Light-Up Spoon is...what else...a spoon that lights up. 
It is a two-piece plastic spoon consisting of a fat (for a piece of silverware) handle and a water-clear transparent plastic spoon bowl that lights up red, yellow, or a yellowish-green (depending on which one you receive) when you push & hold down a button on the handle. When assembled (a very easy process), it resembles a standard spoon - the bowl looks to be approximately halfway between the size of a standard household/kitchen tablespoon and a teaspoon.
The spoon bowl can be removed and the handle used as an emergency flashlight if necessary.
* Product was free; it was found in a cereal box.
SIZE
Batteries are included and installed; so the product is ready to use as soon as you rip open the little plastic baggie it comes in and push the spoon portion onto the handle.
Firmly slide the small black slide switch near the base of the handle up (toward the spoon bowl). This "arms" the product.
On the handle near the upper edge is a red, yellow, or green button switch (the switch color is indicative of the LED color). Press & hold down this button to cause the spoon bowl to glow; release pressure to turn it off.
To "disarm" the spoon, firmly slide the small black slide switch near the base of the handle down (away from the spoon bowl).
The transparent spoon bowl can be removed (it pulls straight off the handle) and is top-rack dishwasher-safe.
The handle is *NOT* submersible or dishwasher-safe however; clean it ***ONLY*** with a damp cloth when necessary.
Product was designed to be disposable; so I will not have any additional information for this section of the web page.
The Indiana Jones Light-Up Spoon is designed to be used as a piece of silverware, not as a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused; I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, try to drown it in the {vulgar term for feces}bowl or the cistern, run over it, swing it against the concrete floor of a patio, bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannonada (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a scanner-type device on a platform with a large readout, with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; and the cannonada is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or inflict upon it punishments that I might inflict upon a flashlight.
So this section of the Indiana Jones Light-Up Spoon's web page will be substantially more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight who's sole purpose in life is to be a flashlight.
The spoon bowl can be removed and the handle used as an emergency flashlight if need be.
The only obvious damage mechanism that I can see is that the handle could possibly be submerged in the milk (in a bowl of cereal) to the point where milk could possibly enter the handle around the red, yellow, or green pushbutton switch, either ruining the electrical assembly or going sour inside the handle, causing the spoon to emit an unpleasant odour after several days.
I typically do not rate disposable products higher than 4 stars, so even if it were perfect (which it isn't), it would not make it into The Trophy Case on this website.
Photograph of the product (red LED), illuminated of course.
Photograph of the product (yellow LED), illuminated of course.
Photograph of the product (yellow-green LED), illuminated of course.
Beam photograph of the product (red LED version) at ~12" on the test target - "spoon" bowl removed.
Measures 10,910mcd on a Meterman LM631 light meter.
Beam photograph of the product (yellow LED version) at ~12" on the test target - "spoon" bowl removed.
Measures 15,690mcd on a Meterman LM631 light meter.
Beam photograph of the product (yellow-green LED version) at ~12" on the test target - "spoon" bowl removed.
Measures 9,680mcd on a Meterman LM631 light meter.
Photograph of the product (yellow-green LED) in use, with photoflash.
This is a bowl of Kellog's brand Cocoa Crispies cereal.
Photograph of the product (yellow-green LED) in use, without photoflash.
Spectrographic analysis of the LED in this product (red LED version).
Spectrographic analysis of the LED in this product (yellow LED version).
Spectrographic analysis of the LED in this product (yellow-green LED version).
USB2000 spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.
TEST NOTES:
Product was found as a "freebie" inside of a box of Kellog's brand Coco Crispies cereal on 04-17-08.
I found another one in another box of the same brand/type cereal on the morning of 04-18-08.
These spoons come with LED colors of red, yellow, and yellow-green.
Product was made in China. A product's country of origin really does matter to some people, which is why I published it on this web page.
UPDATE: 04-21-08
The possible damage mechanism - of milk getting inside the handle around the pushbutton during use - is a rather remote possibility. I ate cereal with the spoon from a fairly large and deep bowl, and even with this deeper-than-usual bowl, the pushbutton stayed far enough away from the milk for me to not consider it a real viable damage mechanism.
The bowl of the spoon did come off the handle twice however: once in the cereal bowl and a second time in my mouth.
UPDATE: 04-22-08
I found a third one in another box of the same brand/type of "mould mereal" {cold cereal} (from the TV program "The Fairly OddParents™" episode "Mr. Right") yesterday; I was hoping it had a different color LED so that I could perform spectroscopy on it, but it was another yellow-green LED spoon.
UPDATE: 04-26-08
I found red LED spoons in two more boxes of Cocoa Crispies cereal that I purchased on 04-24-08; I took a beam photograph and performed spectroscopy (pronounced "
") on them, as you see above.
UPDATE: 05-12-08
I finally found a yellow LED spoon in another box of Cocoa Crispies a couple of mornings ago; I dutifully photographed it and performed spectroscopy of it.
PROS:
The price is right
Reasonably durable construction
Spoon bowl is washable & reusable
CONS:
Spoon bowl *MAY* come off at an inappropriate time
The fact that it is disposable; you'll be throwing away a poor defenseless LED when the batteries peter out and you dispose of the unit
MANUFACTURER: Unknown
PRODUCT TYPE: Light-up spoon cum emergency flashlight
LAMP TYPE: Red, yellow, or yellow-green LED
No. OF LAMPS: 1
BEAM TYPE: Medium spot with rings (spoon bowl removed), N/A (spoon bowl in place)
SWITCH TYPE: Momentary pushbutton on/off switch on spoon's handle
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: Plastic; LED inside product body (inside the handle)
BATTERY: Unknown type & number of button cell(s)
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER RESISTANT: Spoon bowl is, handle is very lightly splatter-resistant at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: Spoon bowl is top-rack dishdoucher safe; handle is *NOT* submersible
ACCESSORIES: Batteries
WARRANTY: Not stated
PRODUCT RATING:
Indiana Jones Light-Up Spoon *
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