Cell Phone Breath Analyzer

What else can the cell phone do for you ?

The Korean cell phone manufacturer LG Electronics's LP4100 brand, to be released in the U.S. later this year, not only takes pictures of your friends' bar tricks, it can also ward off two of a a wild party's most undesirable consequences - drunk dialing and DUIs.

The LP4100 has a built-in breath analyzer that, when blown into by an intoxicated partier, gives a warning and displays a nifty little animation of a car swerving on a road and crashing into traffic cones. (Which should be easy for even the tipsy mind to understand.)

The phone can also be programmed to block selected numbers in the address book--bosses, moms, exes, pizzerias--if the breath analyzer records a blood-alcohol concentration over 0.08.

It's already a hit in Korea, where more than 200,000 of LG's Breathalyzer-type phones have been sold.