What do you get when you combine an arc cigarette lighter and some scrap glass and metal? [NightHawkInLight] created a simple plasma cutter project along with some hot glue and a few simple tools ...

A Georgia man will face criminal charges for accidentally setting fire to his wife by flicking his lighter near his pickup truck’s gas tank while refueling. Austin Dawkins, 37, of Clarkesville ...

A small butane lighter that's the size and shape of a cigarette. That's what this is. It even looks like a cigarette! Buy a new pack of cigarettes, take one out, light it with this lighter, then ...

Many consumers have come to expect a cigarette lighter socket in their vehicles. This expectation, coupled with its multifunctionality, has perpetuated its presence in car designs.

Battery Sleuth delivers a sort of "voltage fingerprint" to the car when the driver enters a security code into a keypad. Here's what happens next.

The first— we wanted to use some of those car accessories that you plug in to to cigarette lighter in a car, but use them inside our house (we rarely drive now) and the second, add the thing ...

It’s a catalytic lighter that uses platinum to ignite methanol vapors. The concept shown in the video below is platinum’s catalyst properties with some types of flammable gasses.

The 12V jack in a car (once the cigarette lighter) is a pretty common place for many of us to put a USB charger these days. In a lot of car models, that 12V jack doesn’t stop getting power ...