Ego history?

[Screwbag]

So, I'm trying to track the making of these ego style units.
who actually made them first? Was it joyetech or what? I can't find any solid info.
its my understanding that joyetech holds claim to the ego name?

So who is the innovators and who are the knock offs?

 

[Faceless]

Design was sold to joyetech a few years ago. Ego's can be purchased from almost all vendors.

 

[Screwbag]

Design was sold to joyetech a few years ago. Ego's can be purchased from almost all vendors.

Well I understand they are available about everywhere...I was just wondering who came up with it...so who sold it to joyetech?

 

[Faceless]

It was an idea proposed to them. They are produced in china. A dumb texan sold the idea of a larger power source with a manual switch to the owner of joye in China. The contract was for a sum of money and 20% royalties. They started production months later in Oct of 2009.

 

[Screwbag]

Interesting....thanks.

Go figure, a Texan doing something bigger....lol

 

[MickeyRat]

I believe Jaunty developed the ego and licensed the design to Joye.

 

[KDude]

Never heard the Texas story. lol. I thought it was Janty designed, then manufactured by Joyetech. Since then, the two have ended their partnership, and I think the ego has "forked" into different concepts. Most egos are manufactured by Joyetech, but rebranded by vendors. The unofficial "clones" usually go by different names (riva, kgo, etc). The official clones usually mention joyetech, even if they rebrand (like Totally Wicked has the "Tornado", but they don't hide that it's joyetech).

 

[Screwbag]

So have we found the vaping equivalent of which came first...the chicken or the egg? Hahah

 

[KDude]

The more I think about this, the more I get confused.

I bought a Ovale ecab recently, but I was confused when I went on Joyetech's site... and they have videos for the ecab saying it's "Ovale designed". They also carry ads for Ovale's elips. I thought that was weird.. I figured Joye might've been designing it, and Ovale just some partner. So I googled a bit, and found a website for Ovale Korea. EXCEPT, the web address is http://www.jantykorea.com . Janty Korea. On the site however, they mention Ovale, Janty, and Joye interchangably. What the hell is going on?

 

[KDude]

OK, I think the story is that Janty designed the original ego, Joyetech was their hardware partner/manufacturer. Then Ovale designed tank systems (Ego-T?), and one way or another, these three worked together with the same products. For whatever reason, Janty and Joye have ended their relationship recently, but Ovale and Joye are still in a design/manufacturer partnership. Sort of sattelite companies of each other? Janty has moved on to entirely new designs.

 

[Toby]

Janty designed the original eGo; it evolved from the (slightly larger) prototype, the Baby J.