Smule, a developer of interactive sonic applications for the iPhone, has introduced its first product, the Sonic Lighter, now available through Apple iTunes’ App Store for US$0.99.
The Sonic Lighter offers:
• Multi-touch and tilt input to ignite and/or manage flames
• Sonic Modem (via speaker and microphone) to ignite adjacent Sonic Lighters
• Breath and wind input (modeled over microphone) to extinguish flames
• Global flame map indicates where you and others have created light
“I personally don’t believe that it’s really an iPhone — it looks, sounds, and feels like an actual flame to me,” said Dr. Ge Wang, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer for Smule, in the press release. “I’ve found the flame map to be quite useful, especially at night.”
Smule’s Sonic Lighter:
More info here.
Stay tuned for the summer intern, er… App Store Evaluation Team at Apple to pull it from the App Store based upon random whim, er… complex algorithms that, without fail, correctly determine uniqueness, worthiness, and appropriateness (tip calculators excluded, of course; you can never have enough tip calculators).
Great take 😀
And people say Apple make toys
Just think if that developer put his programming skills to work on something that was actually useful!
Apple, you approved this but not the fart noise app which I want? Thanks a lot, Apple.
Apparently Apple really, really like those flashlight/lighter apps. Maybe Steve, Phil, Scott and Jonny have a new lighter/flashlight app for each day of the week?
And now we know what Apple does when it isn’t designing groundbreaking products – it sits mesmerized by digital naked flames!
That looks hot.
Maybe SJ is afraid of the dark.
Are they still doing the “rolling blackout” thing in Ca. still?
Flashlight apps would be very useful in Tx. and La. right about now.
New marketing strategy perhaps?
This will go great with my new ‘CrackPipe’ app!
(providing it doesn’t duplicate an iTunes function).
Just touch the lighter to the dock,
hold down the home button-carburetor,
and draw on the headphone jack, then…
what were we talking about?
It’s a good thing they made this! Just the other day, I was browsing through the app store, and I said to myself, “Man, if only I could find some sort of a lighter, or a flashlight to go with all of these different versions of Sudoku!”
They were worried that Pull My Finger might get too close to a lighter app. Add a Sony laptop battery and you’ll lose a hand.
BOOM!
@ Nick Fury
The combination of ‘Pull My Finger’ and ‘Sonic Lighter’ on the one iPhone could be disastrous.
“The combination of ‘Pull My Finger’ and ‘Sonic Lighter’ on the one iPhone could be disastrous.”
They could combine the 2 and call it “Blue Angel”
I bet this product becomes the hottest app at the iTunes App Store – which will be a real burn to the PhoneSaber!
@NickFury and HolyMackerel!!!
Explosive comments! Ignited many a bad memories of beer, lighters and college dorms!
Now, if only it was a real lighter, I could light my cigarette and not have to carry around a lighter.
Hm. Maybe if they put the CPU into a really tight look, they could generate enough heat…
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KoiPond and Sonic Lighter = FishFry!!!
Yummmm…
Another flaming app. I’m sure San Francisco & Providence, RI will be pleased.
What Apple should do with all it’ new found power is bar all future flame apps (that are not free) that are not as good as this one.
I can’t see any reason to clog up the app store with more junk.
HolyMackerel:
Or very popular at frat parties.
That’s Provincetown, MA, you flaming bigot.
Perfect tool for a concert
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MacBill has a point.
Apple missed an opportunity for us to light our iFarts with SonicLighter.
Why on earth Apple is not accepting those hundreds of applications for iPhone development? Many Mac development companies are waiting for months for approval while the individual amateurs are granted permission on the spot… This is a major screw-up on Apple’s part and creates a situation that overwhelming majority of apps available at iTunes app store are just pure crap. That, coupled with app rejections, really turns developers off.
It is a basic social skill that kids learn in kindergarten: play nice with other kids or don’t play at all. Did some people at Apple skipped the kindergarten?
Apple is becoming a joke because of the iTunes app store practices. That may cause a serious damage to Apple’s image. I don’t know what clowns are making those decisions but I hope the chief El Jobso the Clown will kick their asses rather sooner than later.
This will be convenient when the time comes around to spark my iBlunt. However, I don’t expect Apple to tolerate this app in the App store for long; it has no tip calculator.
Hey, back off of Apple! A lighter is very much like a flashlight, and besides, Steve needs a cool lighter for all those music concerts.