Mar 28 2008Cigarette Pack Cell Phone Is Sneaky, Smokey
This is a cell phone disguised as a pack of Marlboro cigarettes that'll set you back about $175 in China. It rocks dualband GSM, a microSD card slot, and can play MP3's.
From the front, it looks like a real pack of Marlboros. You can even put real cigarettes in it. But secretly, it's a cell phone. The best part is the side-mounted camera feature - people might be looking for you to take cell phone pictures, but they'll never suspect your cigs! This phone is available in Taipei's ShiLin night market, next to the toilet-themed restaurant.
Ah yes, the infamous toilet-themed restaurant. A regular mecca for novelty cell phone lovers. Seriously though, great Poopoo Platter.
Chinese Cigarette Phone Looks Like a Pack of Marlboros [boingboing]
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Reader Comments
1. Superevil - March 28, 2008 3:19 PM
Finally I don't have to carry my cigarettes AND my cellphone!
2. Keiko - March 28, 2008 3:21 PM
neat!
clunky, but neat!
3. Scott - March 28, 2008 4:02 PM
Hey, now you can get lung and brain cancer at the same time! How convenient!
4. guate6 - March 28, 2008 4:07 PM
I don't smoke, but it seems like a neat thing.
#3: I agree...though the whole brain cancer thing is still under research, but it can't be all that good for you.
5. Sloane - March 28, 2008 4:44 PM
I wouldn't want that phone. Stupid people would constantly interrupt your conversations, trying to bum a cigarette off you!
6. SmokingGirl - March 28, 2008 5:12 PM
It's sad that we smokers have to "hide" our habit in plain site now. *sigh*
7. Meaty_Urologist - March 28, 2008 5:20 PM
So that's why that guy on the bus was sliding his pack of Marbs under that woman's dress!
Clever!
8. Joel Rifkin - March 28, 2008 5:29 PM
As a smoker, I would think a pack of cigarettes that looks like a cell phone would be more useful.
9. cp - March 28, 2008 6:33 PM
This phone (not the cig part) seriously look like my old Toshiba T32....think they just kinda stuff it in? 'cause that phone is friggin slim as hell haha
10. Kristen - March 28, 2008 7:07 PM
For now, at least, Taipei is in Taiwan, which is not in China.
11. cheeseycom - March 28, 2008 10:58 PM
It's kinda neat and all, but people are just going to think you're some kind of nut when you start speaking into a pack of cigarettes..
It's not fooling anyone, so what's the point, really?
12. aznterrorist - March 29, 2008 10:25 AM
My friends actually went to Taiwan this fall and ate at that toilet themed restaurant! lol
But the thing I don't get is the reason for this thing.. why would you wanna hide your phone?!?
13. laz - March 29, 2008 12:38 PM
@10
that depends on who you speak to. officially taiwan has not gained independence from china, hence "chinese taipei"