Lithium Battery Woes... ((or... why I can't hack my Mardi Gras Throw))

On the magical day that is Mardi Gras day, I performed the sacred ritual of giving the small child next to me a throw I caught. In this case, it was a Zulu spear from the truck parade. A few minutes later, his mother handed me a small box in return and said, “My kids don’t need this!” Inspecting my spoils, I immediately thought: "jackpot!" Inside the box was a small, round, “rainbow ring selfie light”, with a mirror inside. It connected to your phone via a Bluetooth connection. It fit perfectly with my previous blog post with Andrew Bellini’s guide on hacking small IoT devices. A cheap, obscure gadget with wireless connectivity is basically a hacker’s invitation, and I was ready to get my feet wet in trying to find out what language it had been coded in and API calls this thing would make when connected. I opened the packaging later, set it on my desk, and planned to come back to it in a few weeks. When I showed it to my coding partner a week or two later, I noticed something strange: