http://www.nitestik.com.au/home.html
Looks nice, especially if I don't want any radioactive (tritium) gadgets near me...
Does it really work as advertised?
No, and not really a desire to. How often do our keys get exposed to enough light to usefully glow when lying around for us to find them at night?
Oh, it doesn't really need to be useful... :)
You can't beat tritum. I dropped my keys in total darkness. I could see them 50+ metres away
Would you suggest a good tritium keychain (or similar)?
@ _the_: I recently bought a couple of tritium keychains from UK. Very nice colors, they look absolutely brilliant at night! Green is the brightest, but the blue ones look amazing! The "Maxi" size costs 9,50 €, but they have smaller ones too. They also sell the bare tritium tubes in various sizes, good for flashlight modding ;)
The site is mostly in german, but they speak english. You order via email, and they send you the bank details. No paypal unfortunately.
@Haggai: At least the nightsticks use the new glow in the dark pigments based on alkali earth aluminates. They are much better than the old ones with tin oxide. Takes longer to 'charge' (a minute or so), but then it's really bright. For seveal minutes it lights up a dark room, and you can still see it after 12 hours or so. I got some pigment powder from Glow Inc in the states and use it with clear epoxy to make all kinds of stuff glow in the dark. You can see a single grain of the stuff when freshly charged :)
But why they claim a lifetime of only ten years for the glow pigment is beyond me. As long as it doesn't get wet it shouldn't ever stop to work.
Busted! What were you doing not having a light? 
Rich
@Confusius: Thanks for the pointer. I already sent them email..
Edit: And they replied in 4 minutes(!!) Paypal is ok nowadays, but it requires registered shipping.
Sounds good. Waiting to see those in real life. :)
Yeah, I like this shop - last time I paid on Thursday and got the package the next Tuesday. :)
I also like to tell people that my keychain has a half-life ;)
Have fun with yours!
The nitestick site doesn't show any prices.
Now conc. my experience with the similar keychains from DX: I own the smallest and the biggest (30 bucks!) version of those and they are VERY cool and useful BUT I have to talk sh** about the quality and usability. My small one chipped a piece of the plastic while I guess I threw the keys on the table one day. It's not like I was hitting them against the wall, just had them in my pocket and then would put them on the table. Maybe it chipped in the pocket, I don't know, just want to let you guys know that the casings are not EDC quality if they can't stand being mildly hit by the attached keybundle.
search "glow in the dark keyfob" for history and descriptions of how to make them-- I've bought mine from a fellow via CPF for years, they last all night with any white light to get them going; he rarely has them available nowadays, and you have to be quick when he announces he has some. He also wrote up the details as he worked out how to make them at the glow-inc forums (not simple to get bubble-free. I'm glad to know there are more sources; curious how they're made and how well the other ones out there hold up.
They cost on ebay about 11$ shipped internationally from the UK.
I ordered on Saturday and the mail man brought them to me just a few minutes ago. Wow. That was fast!
I like Royal Mail much better than Hong Kong Post... or even Deutsche Post/DHL ;)
I ordered a few Nitestiks from First-Fox last week, 4.95€ (~ $6.6) each and received them today. I had trouble placing my order through their website which seemed a bit buggy (using Firefox), so I placed my order through e-mail. The shipping cost was 2.5€ (~$3.3) with regular mail, probably a bit more outside Europe.
I haven't had the chance to test one yet, gonna let one charge in daylight and see how it works after it gets dark.