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My immediate thought was that this was a post about how someone got root access to a cigarette lighter and I was totally ready to believe it.

My parents oven gets regular software updates so I didn’t even question whether the cigarette lighter was “smart.”

>>zephyr+(OP)
From the title I half expected an incendiary version of rubber hose cryptography.

>>zephyr+(OP)
ooh i want a smart lighter, so i can use my phone in one hand to light the lighter in the other hand :O

>>sim7c0+q01
Sell pyromaniacs this product, find the lighter two months later in a burned-out building, use it to identify which phone did it, catch perp.

>>zephyr+(OP)
Well, the soldering iron I use most often has modifiable firmware running on a RISC-V SOC. (https://pine64.com/product/pinecil-smart-mini-portable-solde...) Who knew that melting lead could be that complicated. So I would totally believe an article about rooting a lighter.

>>zephyr+(OP)
I thought they are calculating square roots using the shape of flame...

>>zephyr+(OP)
So ... a lighter with a little solar panel, and a battery, which generates sparks like a tiny taser when the lidar detects a suitably proximate cigarette or cigar. But not a finger or hot dog.

No button pushing. No lighter fluid refilling ... ever. The world waited a long time for this.

And obviously it needs a chip to run the lidar, and generate the simultaneous brilliant LED flash and fade, haptic jolt, and accompanying sound effects.

(Can some demo freak please create this? And make it look like a little revolver? But for finger and hot dog safety, you are going to have to harden the virtual memory controller...)