Smule, a new developer of what the company's calling interactive sonic applications for the iPhone, launched its first product, the Sonic Lighter, on the iPhone App Store for $0.99 today.

Here are a few features of Sonic Lighter:

 

Multi-touch and tilt input to ignite and/or manage flames

 

Sonic Modem (via speaker and microphone) to ignite adjacent Sonic Lighters

 

Breath and wind input (modeled over microphone) to extinguish flames

 

Global flame map indicates where you and others have created light

Check out Sonic Lighter in action in the video below:

 

This is the first in a series of applications to come from Smule, which was founded by a group of Stanford and Princeton music PhDs.