Gizmodo: cigarettes

3-in-1 Cigarette Lighter, Air Purifier and Perfume Sprayer

Andi Wang — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:20:13 EDT

Marketed as a "healthy smoking machine," this 3-in-1 gadget lights up your cigarettes then automatically "purifies" all the nasty smoke around you, all the while spraying the air with your favorite perfume.

Ideal for small places like a car, the $55 machine claims to sterilize the air with its environmental Ion Oxygen Hydronium function. Haha, OK. But it'll still kill you. [Product Page via Red Ferret]

Japanese Healthy Cigarettes Do Nothing for Kicking the Habit

Erica Ho — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:30:00 EST

A Japanese company, Sosu, has recently revealed healthy cigarettes, rechargeable battery-powered butts that emit flavored steam, complete with glowing LED lights. Unfortunately these cigarettes won’t actually help with those nicotine—you know, the addictive part—cravings.

The Mismo cigarette comes from Sosu's 'Nicolestyle' (or "Nicotine-less Style") line of products. Nicotine-free and tar-free, the cigarettes ensure you get your essential nutrients such as CoQ10 and Vitamin C. Flavors come in mint and grapefruit, which lay in cartridges that cost about $10 each and last for 300 inhales. For about $126, you can at least look swanky and cultured (coughpretentiouscough) as you hang outside a high upscale Euro club. I guess smoking is still pretty in—just this morning I swore I woke up and for a few hours I thought it was 1929. [Engrish]

Turn an Old iPod Into a Cigarette Holder to Look Cool, Get Cancer

Adam Frucci — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:20:00 EST

If you have an old, dead iPod kicking around and are also looking for a way to disguise your disgusting cigarette addiction, here's a nice way to kill two birds with one stone: hide your cigarettes in your iPod! It's a pretty straightforward operation, involving getting rid of the guts in your iPod and then filling said iPod with cigarettes. A better DIY project? Quit smoking. Just saying. [Current via ShinyShiny]

Cigarette Umbrella Keeps Tobacco Torch Dry

Mark Wilson — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:15:00 EDT

If there were only a market for such intricate and fantastical smoking devices, maybe even I could become a Marlboro man. Who knew my smoking habits would so closely mirror those of English clowns from the 1930s? [Modern Mechanix via boingboing]

Hands-On with the Indoor-Approved Super Smoker

Adam Frucci — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Zara from Shiny Shiny got her hands on the Super Smoker, an electronic fake cigarette that allows you to smoke your filthy cancer sticks indoors due to the fact that it emits a harmless vapor. It uses replacable cartridges that come in a variety of nicotine levels, and while I'm sure it'll keep you from getting the shakes if you're a serious smoker, I doubt that it provides the smooth, satisfying flavor of a real cigarette. And for $140 plus more for the cartridges, maybe it'd be cheaper to just go outside with a real cigarette. Or, you know, quit. If only smoking didn't make you look so cool! Remember that, kids. [Product Page via ShinyShiny]

Dual Layer Discs Not Causing Wii Errors, Cigarettes are

Haroon Malik — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:00:00 EST

Word was in that copies of SSBB were causing Nintendo Wii consoles to readout a list of system errors. Nintendo has responded saying the game disc is not faulty, in fact, the likely cause is a dirty disc lens caused by smoke and general dust build-up. The SSBB disc is the first game to ship as a DL-DVD, and this type of DVD requires an increased sensitivity from the lens. So, build up that would not normally effect game play from a single layer DVD would cause errors from the dual layer variety. Thankfully, Nintendo has offered to clean any affected consoles, but they aren't issuing nicotine patches to help you quit smoking—the cleanup is going to get repetitive... [Kotaku]

Distilling the Tar From Two Cartons of Cigarettes

Adam Frucci — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:17:02 EST

At this point, everybody knows that cigarettes are bad for you. It's not like a smoker is going to hear that cigarettes cause cancer and be shocked enough to quit; they know what they're doing. But in this video, in which someone with a homemade setup distills the tar from two cartons of cigarettes, is a particularly visceral reminder as to exactly what you're loading your lungs up when you smoke. Gee-ross. [Neatorama]

Cigarette Machine to Teens: "Get Outta Here Ya Damn Kids!"

Benny Goldman — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:00:00 EST

Listen up, Japanese teens: vending machine maker Fujitaka Co. is on to your sneaky cigarette-buying ways, and has created a machine that uses a camera and face recognition software to try and stop you. The machine takes your picture when you press the "Adult Recognition" button, and analyzes your face for wrinkles and sagging. If it thinks you aren't saggy enough, you must insert your license for age verification. In a test of 500 people, the machine spotted adults with 90% accuracy. Looks like the big kid with the crustache sitting at the back of your math class is about to be your new best friend; at least until you smoke enough to get wrinkled and buy cigarettes on your own. [Textually via The Raw Feed]

Cigarette Extinguisher Has a Big Mouth (NSFW)

Charlie White — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:40:00 EDT

Oh, for crying out loud. What are those kooky Japanese people going to think of next? Inserting a butt into this innocent gal's mouth? It even sounds wrong. There are so many things here that we don't approve of, we'll just have to make a bulleted list:
• Smoking
• Harlotry
• Improper fantasies
• Nudity
• Porcelain figurines
• Drinking
• Spitting/Swallowing
• Putting out cigarettes in somebody's mouth
Let's hope no Gizmodo readers ever partake of such filth. Look, even her nipples are showing. Somebody, make this $3.23 cigarette-parking device go away. Watch out for the NSFW gallery, where this suckweed-gagging clay-fired strumpet looks even tackier. [Tokyo Mango]

USB Air-Filtering Ashtray Less Effective Than Quitting Smoking

Adam Frucci — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:10:39 EDT

Is your cigarette smoking habit making your desk area smell like death? Is your family complaining about getting annoying things like cancer and emphysema from your secondhand smoke? You could quit smoking, but you've never been a quitter. No, you've always been one to solve your problems with gimmicky gadgets.

The USB ashtray filters smoke from your smoldering nic sticks, keeping the air around it relatively clean. It's not going to make the room smell like a pile of daisies, as it's not filtering the smoke you exhale or the smoke that leaves the cigarette when it's not in the ashtray, but it's a start. Now maybe you'll be able to smoke while your kid is taking a nap without your wife giving you a hard time about it. Geez, it's just a bit of smoke! It won't kill him, at least not for a while. [Product Page via Coolest Gadgets]

Lighter in a Cell Phone's Skin: Sort of Sneaky, Sort of Not

Matt Buchanan — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:30:11 EDT

What at first glance looks like a dolphin fetishist's DoCoMo cellphone is in fact a covert lighter, perfect for keeping your dirty habit under wraps (except you know, the packs of fags lying around, the smell, etc.).

If you drop the three bucks and change on one of these (available in a rainbow of five colors), be sure to pick up a smoking jacket as well to keep the cancer away from the rest of us. I'll take mine from a Wi-Fi router, thank you very much. – Matt Buchanan

Product Page [via Tokyo Mango]

Ashcan is an Ashtray for One

Jason Chen — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:15:20 EDT

Considerate smokers (har, har) looking for an ashtray to deposit their refuse into can take a look at the ashcan. It's a personal ashtray that's shaped like a cigarette that lets you deposit your ashes inside while at the same time keeping the smoke from bothering others.

The only downside to this is that it costs $2.40 per ashcan, so you'll have to either clean them out afterwards or invest in a lot of ashcans. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Ashcan via Geekologie]

Fire-Safe Cigarettes to Keep Idiots Alive a Bit Longer

Adam Frucci — Wed, 30 May 2007 17:15:00 EDT

How many stupid people have started fires by falling asleep while smoking a cigarette? One might see this as Darwinism in action, but apparently the bleeding hearts over in Europe think differently. They've developed "fire-safe" cigarettes that put themselves out after a minute or two when not being smoked.

Whatever, if cigarette smokers were so worried about their personal safety they wouldn't be smoking cancer sticks in the first place. Just let these people kill themselves if that's what they want so badly. –Adam Frucci

New Zealand Herald [via Spluch]

Cigarette Phone is Bad For Your Health in Multiple Ways

Adam Frucci — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:40:00 EDT

As if phones weren't bad enough for your body already, now they're going after both your danglers and your lungs. Well, at least this phone is.

Coming straight at ya from nicotine-lovin' China, this phone holds half a pack of cigarettes to help keep your pockets uncluttered. It also has stuff like a camera, a color display (ooh, color!), and an MP3 player, although further details are scant. Don't smoke, kids, no matter how cool it makes you look or how rich and smooth the flavor is. Mmm, flavor.

–Adam Frucci

Gearfuse [via Crave]

DIY Cigarette Camera Flash Diffuser

Travis Hudson — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:59:57 EST

Has your expensive smoking habit prevented you from picking up a real DSLR flash? Well continue to tar up those lungs because that problem has been solved. Conveniently, an empty pack of cigarettes provides the perfect flash diffuser for the integrated flash lens of Canon DSLRs. Diffusing a flash prevents really washed-out images and make the lighting appear more natural. Hit the jump to see a before and after.

– Travis Hudson

Cigarette Packet Flash Diffuser [instructables]

Nicostopper Helps Kick the Habit

Travis Hudson — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:07:25 EST

Cold turkey is a delicious meal and one hard feat to accomplish. If you are unable to kick the smoking habit that way, then allow the Nicostopper to help. Nicostopper may look like an MP3 player, but it is actually a device that will release cigarettes at timed intervals. It will hold 10 cancer sticks and also offer motivational messages in attempt to ween you off of cigarettes. If you thought smoking was an expensive habit, trying to quit is even worse, the Nicostopper will set you back $300. – Travis Hudson

Nicostopper, Helping You Become Smoke Free [Uberreview]

VitaCig, The Cigarette With Vitamin C

gizmodo.com — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:07:20 EDT

Our first contender for Stupid Invention of the Week:

A Quebec company is producing a cigarette it claims does not stain teeth, has less of an odour than regular brands and contains beneficial ingredients like vitamin C. Called the "VitaCig," it was invented by non-smoker Roger Ouellette for his wife, who has smoked a pack of cigarettes every day since the age of 14. "We give you all the vitamins you lose, plus some vitamins to help you," he told CTV News.

Sure, you'll still get cancer, but at least you won't die of scurvy!

Canadian creates cigarette with vitamin C [Sympatico/MSN, thanks Monty!]

Locking Cigarette Case

Travis Hudson — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:08:17 EST

As a former nicotine-inhaling cretin, I fully support a gadget like this. The hardest thing about quitting cold turkey is those random cravings, and most people (like me) don t have the self control to wean themselves off cigarettes exponentially downward. This locking cigarette case could help. It's set to open at timed intervals, but unfortunately doesn t appear to have any way to control how many cigarettes you take. $35 to save the rest of your life sounds like a hell of a deal to me.

Locking cigarette case [Red Ferret]