Light Up Your iPhone With Sonic Lighter
Wired: Gadget Lab — Out of the horde of iPhone applications that fall into the "useless" category, the Sonic Lighter app released Tuesday actually looks pretty cool. You've probably guessed from its name: Sonic Lighter displays an animated lighter that you'd activate with the swipe of your finger. The cooler part is the ability to "light up" other iPhones by tapping the top of your handset against the bottom of a person's iPhone: The speakers and microphones communicate to ignite the flame. Also cool -- by breathing into the microphone, you can blow out the flame.  The ...

Smule: A lighter function for the iPhone
Coolest Gadgets — The Smule has got to be one of the most interesting iPhone applications, but interesting does not mean useful. The Smule is essentially a “Sonic Lighter” that can create an image of a flame on your iPhone. The user can put his or her finger on the flame, and it will move as if you were actually putting your finger in it. It’s kind of like a trick I used to do as a kid where I would pass my finger through a candle flame quickly. Fortunately, if you keep your finger in the Smule flame too long, you won’t burn your hand. The Sonic Modem uses a speaker and a microphone that somehow enables the user to ...

Sonic Lighter: The First iPhone App Openly Designed for Cultists [Clips]
Gizmodo — We always knew that the whole Apple thing was a cult. The signs were always there: Steve Jobs, dressed in a strict uniform of unpretentious clothes, revealing our next idol to worship on a seasonal basis. Now the Sonic Lighter iPhone app brings the sacredness of group flame to iPhone users everywhere. Not only can you create fire of your own, but Sonic Lighter allows you to simultaneously light iPhones around you. It's a $1 app, but boy will it piss off everyone around you who worships a Blackberry. [smule] ...

Sonic Lighter: The First iPhone App That Lights Other iPhones On Fire [Clips]
Gizmodo — We always knew that the whole Apple thing was a cult. The signs were always there: Steve Jobs, dressed in a strict uniform of unpretentious clothes, revealing our next idol to worship on a seasonal basis. Now the Sonic Lighter iPhone app brings the sacredness of group flame to iPhone users everywhere. Not only can you create fire of your own, but Sonic Lighter allows you to simultaneously light iPhones around you. It's a $1 app, but boy will it piss off everyone around you who worships a BlackBerry. [smule] ...

Sonic Lighter iPhone App
GadgetReview — Whose says 99 cents don’ t buy squat!  For that exact same price, not a penny more, Smule has released the Sonic Lighter app for the iPhone.  Taking advantage of the iPhone mic and speakers, users can ignite adjacent Sonic Lighters or blow out the flame.  They’ve also added a ‘global flame map’ where you can view fellow piros activity.  Lighting it just takes a simple swipe of the screen flint. Available here Check the videos after the ‘leap’ ...

iPhone : Flame On!
Fashionfunky.com — Anything sufficiently advanced in technology from the current generation would be indistinguishable from magic for a person who is not of that time - or something similar - was what Arthur Clarke (my favorite SciFi author) wrote in one of his stunning novels. It does make a lot of sense as we see technology changing right in front of our eyes. ...