E-ink - The future of e-cigs?

[roxics]

I think a really cool idea would be to have a strip of e-ink on the side of e-cig batteries. A way of indicating how much you've vaped in relation to an analog cigarette. When the strip reads full it's the equal of a full analog. When it reads empty, you've just finished the equivalent of an analog.

This system would definitely work better for pre-filled cartomizers like you find on the KR808D1. But even then those carts would have to communicate with the battery and have to be able to judge how long the drag is off of them. The longer the drag the further the status bar goes down. Just like the longer the drag on an analog the further the analog burns down.

But overall e-ink is coming down in price and a small strip on the side of a battery wouldn't draw much power from the battery itself. The nice thing about e-ink is that it only uses power when it changes its state, so when you aren't dragging on the e-cig the indicator will always show the level you're at. Now if you pop a different cart on, that new cart will have to refresh that e-ink strip. Which means that cart has to remember which level it was at. Think of it like smoking half a cigarette and then lighting up a new cigarette and then finishing the other half of the first. The side benefit to that is that it can also remember how many analog equals it has gone through, which means you could get a read out of just how used up that cart really is.

But the biggest benefit is that is gives people a way to judge how much they're vaping in a day.

 

[qwertylesh]

I like the concept, purely because if it were implemented in an e-cig that I was using, I'd like to know what the equivalent I'm vaping now compared to smoking was for curiosity sake. It also might help those who may not be able to be as responsible with ecigs when switching. Any concept which could help prevent people making themselves sick from mismanaged amount of vaping or nicotine absorption is a good thing IMHO
Personally, I'm fairly aware of the quantity of ejuice I am vaping per day, and am very thoughtful about the nicotine level of juice I buy and use already.

 

[BiffRocko]

While I think it's an interesting idea, I think it's largely unnecessary. If you use the posts here on ECF as a guide, the majority of people who are trying to figure out the equivalent to analogs are new people who have just started vaping or people who are about to buy their first round of supplies and want to make sure they buy enough liquid. The majority of us who have been vaping for more than a few days or a few weeks don't even think about this anymore. We've learned what strength is right for us and we fall into a pattern of usage just like we did with analogs.

 

[roxics]

That might be true. Perhaps I still don't have a very good idea of how much I'm vaping. I can count the cartos I go through. But I don't always go through one a day. Nor am I consistent with my vaping. I might do a little here, a little there. I might sit at the computer with the pass through in hand and drag on it every few minutes for a couple hours or I could go a couple hours between hitting it. So for me personally it would be helpful to have a meter.

 

[foggy1]

how about a 'breathizer' for nicotine ?
you blow in it and know your current level
some of us change pv's during the day so a battery moniter would be useless

 

[thomas_mikel]

My position, is what does it matter, really? I am not trying to disrespect the OP in any way at all. But for me, I vape when and how much I feel like until I'm satisfied. Some days it's a lot, some days not so much. I don't keep track of how much juice I go through, when I get low I order a bunch. Vaping is something that I enjoy and in my opinion it's not nearly as harmful to me, so I am not going to set limits on how much I should do on a given day. I do understand the curiosity factor, and that may be what is driving your thought. But for me, hey I like it and if I feel the need I pull it out and puff away.

 

[qwertylesh]

Knowing is better then not knowing imo, I've been vaping for a few months and even up until now, it would be better if the hardware had some sort of indicator provided it doesn't hinder the experience in anyway, for those who find it unnecessary, if such an idea were to come into fruition, I think it would be a particular model or a particular brand, and unlikely to be adopted as a common standard in manufacturing (though that'd be nice) but even if that were the case, it would be a feature you're not obligated to utilize, yet many especially new vapers may find to be a very helpful feature to have on an ecig.

 

[andygee]

Something like this was the first thing I thought e-cigs needed from the day i started using them. I want to know the exact charge on the battery, the precise saturation of the cartomizer, performance of the atomizer, inhale volume, and nicotine consumed relative to a Marlboro. I want an instrumant panel, but e-ink would work for me.