FANL Eight-Band Assorted Set

Why eight is the useful number

Eight is the size of a birthday table, a skating lane or a classroom row, and it is the number we kept coming back to when we designed this set. Every band is controlled on its own wrist, so one guest can sit on a steady glow while the guest beside them runs a fast flash. Nothing is paired, nothing is slaved to a remote, and nothing needs an adult to reset it between songs. The white band is the one people trade for: it cycles through several colours instead of holding one, and it reads as the prize of the set.

What the colours do in a dark room

A solid band throws a readable line of light about 5.7 inches long, which is enough to pick a wrist out of a crowd at twenty or thirty feet. Put all eight together and you get a moving colour chart rather than a wall of the same shade, which is the difference between a photo that looks like a party and a photo that looks like a safety drill. We pick the assortment so that no two neighbouring shades collapse into each other on camera.

Handing them out without a queue

The bands arrive with the cells already fitted, so the set goes from the box to eight wrists in about a minute. We still recommend a quick pass with a fingernail across each battery door before the guests arrive, because a door that is not fully clicked shut is the single most common reason a band looks dead on the night.

How this set is controlled

Every bracelet in the box is its own controller. One button on the outside cycles the light, there is no remote to lose and no sound trigger waiting on the music, so an eight-person table can run three different modes at once. Please press each battery door shut before the event starts and keep the spare cells out of reach of small children, who should be supervised while they wear a band. A lit wrist buys you the security of being able to count a group in the dark; it is not safety equipment.

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