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.]
posted July 17th 2009 7:49AM
I don't normally condone anything smoking related, but I must say this is a brilliant idea.
Until the cover flips open in your pocket and lights your ass on fire!
How would that be any different than any crapple products?..
At least this is designed to catch things on fire...
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?
Perfect for Asia!
I disagree, these are a major security hazard and the TSA needs to take notice.
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.
"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"
Should be extremely popular in Asia, where smoking is all the rage.
Features 10 minutes of talk time before your battery dies out from lighting up
Hey, it'll be alive two minutes longer than the user will.
And 6 minutes longer than my iPhone.
That's quite awesome, in a bad way, like a monkey with 3 heads. Also, it's a kirf of the Nokia N70, kinda.
It's a Bic with a 2-year contract.
I must say this is going to be a killer!!! Literally!!!
Maybe this is the real iPhone Killer!!!
maybe it's the final nail in HD-DVD's coffin?!
finally something to rival the iphone in the pocket-fire department.
ring ring.
Hello...
Lung cancer and emphysema calling.
Don't Burn your pants...
Nice 'Shop job, turning the camera lens into a burner.
Where's the hidden pocket so you can 'put your weeed in it'?
At least someone with some nice grip on reality. All phones should have hidden place to stash weed.
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.
Smoking should be banned.
As for those who say that would take away their "freedom", screw you, you don't deserve it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
You've automatically lost the argument.
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.
"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.
Meh, what Will said.
Tsing Tao, how about smokers not hanging out with humans? They don't seem to be able to stop themselves.
@ 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!
Perfect - for when California legalizes marijuana!
The default ringtone is a lung-cancery hacking and wheezing cough...
It looks like a Samsung or Nokia, though.
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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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.
finally the lighter phone, now they just need to intetrate an bottle opener in it to and it is perfect ;)
Could be a hit in california if they legalize "it"
Imagine if this phone used one of those old Sony batteries that exploded.
Hilarity ensues.
Iphone kille..! Darn
Probably illegal to sell in the EU and USA.
Probably illegal to sell in the EU and USA
Should be "tar-riddled breath" instead of "nicotine-riddled breath".
Thats not a lighter, it's HAL
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..,)
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.
You can get thru it. It's a bitch, but worth the effort. Keep at it, don't give up!
Yes, please don't give up.
For your sake - and everyone around you.
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.
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.
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.
@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.