Buy It And Try It: The Shatterproof Bulb

Garbeau's Dinner Theater just celebrated it's 25th year at the Nimbus Winery. Technical director Louis Hudson has several places where he could use a battery powered Stick Up Bulb.

"We've got a lot of dark places," said Hudson.

Backstage of the theater, there's a lot of activity during a show. A shatterproof light in the back would be nice to have.
After putting in 4 AAA batteries and hanging it up (which you can do with either screws or sticky tape) we were in business.

But we wanted to see if it was really shatterproof—by dropping the Stick Up Bulb.

With the first drop, the light went out, because the batteries fell out. We put them back in and the light was back on.

"I like it, I like it a lot," said Hudson.

We thought that maybe we weren't hard enough on it.

"Let's break it!," said Hudson.

With a tall ladder, Garbeau's restaurant manager Paul Beckworth dropped it 16-feet off the stage.
Again, the batteries went everywhere. Once we scrounged them all up, we put our light back together, and it still worked.

After doing some investigation on the lights, we turn up the secret. It has an outer bulb, that serves as a case and the real light bulb, is just a tiny one inside.

We then made an ultimate test-- a 35-foot roof top drop.

We threw it off the roof.

Then-- crash!

The light bulb didn't shatter, but the tiny one inside finally did.

"That was the most fun I've had at work in a long time," said Beckworth.

"I love it, it's a great product. It's practical for what we do. It can definitely take a beating," said Hudson.

The bulb lived up to its claim. It comes with 2 replacement bulbs. We paid $17 online which included shipping. Some stores sell it for $10.