We have zero solid info on this one -- price, real pictures, or any sort of availability anywhere -- so, don't hold your (nicotine-riddled) breath waiting for the SB6309 Lighter Phone to show at an AT&T Store near you. Even so, a phone with a cigarette lighter built-in is too good not to mention. Flip it over, slide back the protective cover, and press your cancer stick onto the glowing square -- and do it quick, because that can't be doing anything good for battery life. An
interesting product in these increasingly health-conscious times, sure to be a hit in Japan at least where about 30 percent of adults can't get through the day without lighting up. That is, of course, assuming this thing is real. The pics are all renders, and its website seems to be laced with some sort of malware. Click on through to see another picture of its three available colors we've dubbed "Bloody Spittle," "Burnt Tobacco," and "Emphysema." They're viewable here without any risk of giving your machine any sort of respiratory distress, but if you really want to live life dangerously, copy/paste the URL after the break into the appropriately wide box in your browser.
[Thanks, Philip P.]
http://www.seabright.cn/en/showproduct.asp?Cid=290&Mid=79
posted Jul 17th 2009 at 7:49AM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Str1ker @ Jul 17th 2009 7:54AM
I don't normally condone anything smoking related, but I must say this is a brilliant idea.
ProfessorDex @ Jul 17th 2009 8:20AM
Until the cover flips open in your pocket and lights your ass on fire!
Razloga @ Jul 17th 2009 1:38PM
How would that be any different than any crapple products?..
At least this is designed to catch things on fire...
teej @ Jul 17th 2009 3:40PM
Farva: Well, I'll be damaged if Mr. Rich didn't pull out his cigarette lighter and light that award on fire in front of everyone. ...Do you get it?
Rabbit: So you're saying you'll set my Country Music Award on fire?
Farva: I'm saying, when my suspension's up, you better watch your ass!
Rabbit: Or you'll light my ass on fire?
loosely_coupled @ Jul 17th 2009 4:10PM
Perfect for Asia!
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII (BarCODE) @ Jul 17th 2009 11:59PM
I disagree, these are a major security hazard and the TSA needs to take notice.
Nikesh @ Jul 18th 2009 10:33AM
An even better idea: Cook up renders for a smoker's phone and when smoker's go to your website, upload a malware to their computers that pops up a surgeon general's warning every 15 minutes.
Stereotype @ Jul 18th 2009 10:10PM
"You wanna buy some death sticks?"
"You don't want to sell me death sticks"
"I don't want to sell you death sticks"
"You want to go home and re-think your life"
"I want to go home and re-think my life"
xcrunk @ Jul 17th 2009 7:55AM
Should be extremely popular in Asia, where smoking is all the rage.
tealfixie @ Jul 17th 2009 7:57AM
Features 10 minutes of talk time before your battery dies out from lighting up
freehunter @ Jul 17th 2009 8:02AM
Hey, it'll be alive two minutes longer than the user will.
PiperSon @ Jul 17th 2009 8:09AM
And 6 minutes longer than my iPhone.
Imran @ Jul 17th 2009 8:01AM
That's quite awesome, in a bad way, like a monkey with 3 heads. Also, it's a kirf of the Nokia N70, kinda.
Look_Around_You @ Jul 17th 2009 10:26AM
It's a Bic with a 2-year contract.
HoWai Ng @ Jul 17th 2009 8:06AM
I must say this is going to be a killer!!! Literally!!!
HoWai Ng @ Jul 17th 2009 8:05AM
Maybe this is the real iPhone Killer!!!
teej @ Jul 17th 2009 3:42PM
maybe it's the final nail in HD-DVD's coffin?!
macgregger @ Jul 17th 2009 8:08AM
finally something to rival the iphone in the pocket-fire department.
32werqljh @ Jul 17th 2009 8:10AM
ring ring.
Hello...
Lung cancer and emphysema calling.
bublik @ Jul 17th 2009 8:11AM
Don't Burn your pants...
Tukachinchilla @ Jul 17th 2009 8:12AM
Nice 'Shop job, turning the camera lens into a burner.
Where's the hidden pocket so you can 'put your weeed in it'?
Konstantin @ Jul 17th 2009 10:23AM
At least someone with some nice grip on reality. All phones should have hidden place to stash weed.
Ben @ Jul 18th 2009 2:48PM
I just use the dummy phones you can buy on ebay.... Perfect stash box, and a great way for me to own the phones i lusted after in my youth.
10minutehobo @ Jul 17th 2009 8:20AM
Smoking should be banned.
As for those who say that would take away their "freedom", screw you, you don't deserve it.
Will @ Jul 17th 2009 10:23AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
You've automatically lost the argument.
10minutehobo @ Jul 17th 2009 10:47AM
I don't mind if they smoke in the privacy of their own homes, just like I wouldn't mind if they killed themselves (same thing really).
But when they do it in near their family members, especially kids, guests, or when they smoke so much the people in the next apartment/flat can smell it...no, THAT is up there with domestic abuse. Plus, you'll never find a smoker so considerate.
It's your own choice only if it doesn't harm anyone else. And with smoking it's near impossible. A lot of them stink like burned crap even when they're not smoking.
Tsing Tao @ Jul 17th 2009 11:34AM
"What about my right to breathe" W T F are you even talking about. How about not hanging around smokers if they bother you that much, how about occupying the other 99% of everywhere that smokers arent? But no you just wanna cry like a little baby about it. Your right to breathe and my right to breathe smoke are the same thing, get over yourself.
10minutehobo @ Jul 17th 2009 12:20PM
Meh, what Will said.
10minutehobo @ Jul 17th 2009 1:11PM
Tsing Tao, how about smokers not hanging out with humans? They don't seem to be able to stop themselves.
Dr. Evil Genius @ Jul 17th 2009 1:50PM
@ Tsin Tao:
OHHHHHHHHHHH....
I get it now. You're not hateful - just sleep-deprived and over-extended.
Lighten up dude! (pun partially intended)
Live a little instead of working yourself to death. That will kill you quicker than the cigarettes!
exNewt @ Jul 17th 2009 8:41AM
Perfect - for when California legalizes marijuana!
Asten @ Jul 17th 2009 8:24AM
The default ringtone is a lung-cancery hacking and wheezing cough...
It looks like a Samsung or Nokia, though.
alex mung @ Jul 17th 2009 8:26AM
we have spent years trying to develop phones that don't get hot and here is one that quite literally is hot!!!
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Mike @ Jul 17th 2009 8:40AM
Awesome, now your phone can smell like an ashtray. I suppose it already does for those that talk on it and smoke at the same time. Gross.
daskino @ Jul 17th 2009 8:43AM
finally the lighter phone, now they just need to intetrate an bottle opener in it to and it is perfect ;)
Pre-determined @ Jul 17th 2009 8:44AM
Could be a hit in california if they legalize "it"
bolmedias @ Jul 17th 2009 8:59AM
Imagine if this phone used one of those old Sony batteries that exploded.
Hilarity ensues.
Kitsune @ Jul 17th 2009 9:06AM
Iphone kille..! Darn
Excelsium @ Jul 17th 2009 9:11AM
Probably illegal to sell in the EU and USA.
Excelsium @ Jul 17th 2009 9:15AM
Probably illegal to sell in the EU and USA
wywywywy @ Jul 17th 2009 9:27AM
Should be "tar-riddled breath" instead of "nicotine-riddled breath".
Jay @ Jul 17th 2009 9:29AM
Thats not a lighter, it's HAL
eswarjj @ Jul 17th 2009 10:06AM
You mean to say that its similar to exposing the battery on the 3GS White and the Palm Pre (i had a 3gs white; now the palm pre - but sticking with the pre as its the best that's happened in a while - after the original iphone i.e..,)
Will @ Jul 17th 2009 10:12AM
Damnit. I am trying to quit smoking and every time I see a stop smoking commercial or an online post it just makes me want another cigarette.
Jay @ Jul 17th 2009 10:15AM
You can get thru it. It's a bitch, but worth the effort. Keep at it, don't give up!
Dr. Evil Genius @ Jul 17th 2009 10:18AM
Yes, please don't give up.
For your sake - and everyone around you.
Adderz @ Jul 17th 2009 10:24AM
I see no reason to give up something i enjoy, i have two a day. My health, my choice.
Gotta love the social stigma though, all the anti smoking propaganda is laughable.
Tsing Tao @ Jul 17th 2009 11:36AM
Yeah its amazing that the Tobacco industry is the only one that has to pay for commercials vilifying its products, but yet people enjoy it so much they still sell them. I love to smoke and i cant stand anti smoking evangelists, whats even worse is an ex smoker who acts like he/she is a saint now cause they quit. Whoopdee doo, im gonna have a cigarette and make you squirm inside with NEED.
lawyer bird @ Jul 17th 2009 12:17PM
I'm 20 and I'm at the point where I'm really considering quitting, but it's a tough call because I do enjoy it so much. I usually have like 5-6 per day...these discussions are just starting to get to me.
Dr. Evil Genius @ Jul 17th 2009 1:40PM
@Tsing Tao:
While former smokers are annoying, I just cannot understand where the rest of your rant comes from. You really do make yourself to appear to be a hateful person. I hope that appearance is wrong.
The tobacco industry has made 10s of Billions off the addictions of the masses at the expense of their health AND THE HEALTH OF EVERYONE AROUND THEM. The tobacco companies are putting out these ads and STILL making $$$$$ hand over fist. They get no sympathy here.
Go tell a baby to hang out somewhere away from their 4-pack-per-day mother. Or go tell a child (who now has asthma from their parents' smoking) to go find another place to live.