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Last year, Nitecore put a new emphasis on "flat light" with its EDC27. After a little electronics tinkering, it's bested itself with the EDC25, a slightly lighter flashlight that fires out 3,000 lumens with more throw, intensity and overall runtime.

Nitecore has long been stuffing insane lumens into tiny flashlights, and its latest torch does so in an entirely different form factor. The EDC27 looks more like a TV remote thanks to an ultra-slim body built to slip readily into a pocket.

As the name might suggest, Nitecore's line of Tiny Monster flashlights are design to pack maximum punch into compact packages, and the recently introduced TM20K cranks up the illumination to a blinding 20,000 lumens.

In 2013, Nitecore introduced what it billed as the world's smallest 3,500-lumen flashlight. After eight years, it's managed to shrink the size of its lights much further, packing 4,000 lumens into a torch that hangs from a keychain.