See.sense Icon3

I buy less and less hardware as time passes. But I couldn't resist the See.sense Icon3 bike rear light. It's really, really bright and has fancy features: It should be able to brighten when a car approaches from behind, answering the car's headlights as it were, without wearing out its battery.

The light charges via USB C, badly. None of my cables can charge it from a USB C port, it only charges from USB A ports using A-C cables. This may be due to faulty use of the CC1 and CC2 lines in the Icon3. My Anker 737 says it charges at 1.1W from USB A.

It shone very nicely when I used it on a transalpine bike trip this summer, and wasn't at all bothered by rain. The car drivers behaved as if they could to see me well.