The eternal flame: Zippo Lighter at App Store

Victor 2008-09-30 |

Virtual Zippo Lighter at the App Store. Get hold of it for free and launch it on your iPhone.

What about having an eternally burning, environmental friendly zippo lighter? Welcome to the crazy cult of iPhone applications.

What can you do? What can’t you do?

1.    Choose from twenty varieties of the zappy Zippo designs –including the guitar and US flag.
2.    “Touch” to feel and choose one from those jazzy Zippos.
3.    Use the touch-screen to “flip” open one of those lighters. Or show-off your wrist-work to flick open the lid. Courtesy the iPhone ‘s accelerometer.
4.    Then comes the best part. Flip your finger across the tint wheel. In fact, you can actually caress the flint wheel.

What next? Well, that’s it. The flame remains alight through its unending source of binary fuel. Until you flip the lid back on it to extinguish it.

The mundane, vulnerable to the physical world Zippo will cost you anything between $12.95 to $37,000. But THIS one comes for free and with eternal life (at least long as your iPhone/iPod touch is alive). So what if you cannot actually light anything with it? It does lighten up your screen. Ain’t it?

Steven Spielberg immortalized the Zippo when his soldiers in Saving Private Ryan cult-ed the Zippo lighter by lighting explosives, cigarettes, etc. with it. Now is your chance to carry the cult of this windproof, unwavering flame.