[zauriel]

I love all these "responsible" people on the boards who feel that everyone should "know" exactly where they are on the inebriated scale. This isn't something you use when you're hanging out at a friend's house pounding shot after shot of Jagermeister. This is more apt to be used when you've gone out to the bar to chat with friends and listen to some live music and have had 3 beers.

Have none of you ever been to a bar that had a breathalyzer tool already set up (usually near the bathrooms)? You drop in a quarter, blow through a straw, and it gives you a green, yellow, or red light based on where you're at. It's not meant to be the be-all-end-all way to determine if you're good to drive. If anything, it's just fun and interesting. If you have your own internal breathalyzer, bully for you. The rest of us humans might enjoy having something that could be beneficial in avoiding a costly mistake.

That being said, the process described by these folks is not ideal. I'm not throwing on some bulky device just to test my breath. Maybe Apple should innovate and create an internal one in their next iPhone revamp that allows you to just blow into the microphone.

[bhz1]

Originally Posted by cpjr

I decided while having a house party and getting smashed.....to get on my sportbike in the garage and do a huge burnout IN THE GARAGE AT 3AM for the 50 or so peeps there and while doing so......my iphone fell out of my pocket, hit the concrete floor and THEN.....I decided it would be funny to slide the back tire I was roasting over it....hit it and the phone SHOT into my concrete wall and well......I was finding pieces of it for a week

I wanna party with you dude!

no seriously, burnouts on the sportbike in the garage- awesome, at least you weren't out on the street.

[mailandrew]

Ha ha ha!!! Just more proof that the iPhone is going to save the WORLD!

I love it! OMG!

[jabbawalkee]

Originally Posted by Grassmasta

Well, there are some one-sided comments on here...

Not to over represent the alcoholics out there, but what happens if your good to drive (as I know many alcholics that drive just fine while they are smashed...thats what alcoholics do...everything just fine while they're drunk. They call them "functioning alcoholics")

Ummm...I am one of those functioning alcoholics (currently sober for almost 2 years) and I have gotten into far too much trouble to talk about on here...so don't say that functioning alcohols "drive just fine," because that is completely false. That is ignorant and I know people who have died because of drunk driving.

If you don't want a DUI, DON'T DRIVE DRUNK

...you don't need an iPhone to decide whether you should drive under the influence or not

[jayson9]

Wow, A breathalyzer for the iPhone. Can't wait for the iPhone software to be able to identify spammed threads!

[LGgeek]

Originally Posted by Carrbone

seriously how bored are people that they need to makeshift a breathalyzer on their iphone.

90% of you iphone owners are under 21 anyway...

why dont they make something useful?

Like for example I want my Iphone to send a signal to my GF's phone and shock sh*t out of her when she starts getting out of line and giving me attitude............................

LOL not enlightened but funny. Did you show her your post ?
like the rondelle

[Rosbaughcr]

This does seem stupid, but I don't agree with the "if you're not sure you shouldn't be driving" point of view. Where I live the legal limit to drive is .08, but I can't honestly say that I can calculate how many drinks (beer, liquor, wine) over how much time that translates too, especially once you add in tolerance, metabolism, and boddy fat percentage. A few of the states used to have charts on their DMV websites, but California's and Virginia's had different information, which is stange since they both post .08 as their legal limit.

[Nukie]

Driving? How about locking the iPhone if I'm too drunk to prevent drunken phone calls to my current and ex girlfriends. Now THAT would save my a**!

[hostchecker]

That looks really cool

[chazdrums]

I think they did this just because they could. I do stuff to my phone just because I can too. Its still cool though.

[CaryDude]

You folks dissin' this thing don't get how close 0.08 really is! Body mass, experience, hunger level, timing, LOTS of factors go into it, not just are you an alcoholic or are you stumbling drunk. Everybody's metabolism is different and everybody is going to process alcohol at different rates. Two beers over a pizza could get one of these heroine-skinny emos or a sweet young lady into big trouble, whether they felt it or not. At the very least, have a little respect for the fact that someone was trying to put technology to a good use.

[unlockme]

this would obviously be a bit of a novelty item... that being said... you get drunk and you show it to all your friends, everyone wants to try it, it becomes the life of the party until well... it gets broke or the battery dies, either way you cant press the big green button to call a cab.

haha dont drink and drive.