Have all of your former Smokers become Engineers?

[konceptz]

As a CS and CE major, and being pretty invested in android, ios and web dev, I can think of a couple of niche products.

I'd imagine an NFC or Bluetooth monitoring app working much like a sports monitor.

***Tap mod base to phone to begin sync***
***Readout will monitor usage patterns and (possibly) GPS locations***
***Readout will monitor effective coil usage, battery health, etc.****

You could get really creative with this and factor in all sorts of stuff like weather, humidity and other externals.

OR

Something less techie but my personal hope would be a nicotine meter POST hit. Like a draw tube that could measure parts per cm3. This way I could know more about dosing and its effect on flavor or throat hits. Also it could tell me just which products are giving me what actual nicotine.

Quick, someone drop me $50k for a startup! lol

 

[anavidfan]

how about hamsters on wheels, or solar powered batteries on our backs. Or some sort of recharable batteries combined with solar re-chargers? The skys the limit when demand and clever bright minds combine. Im really new to this and said I want to keep it simple. Many have told me since my analog habit was not that strong( a pack every 3-4 days) that the KGO I ordered would be fine. But its like automobiles, is there REALLY any need for Ferrari , Lambos, McClarens etc? We basically cant even open them up except on rented track and drive them from club to club or market? Or as a dating aide? Thats why there are Provaris, and all those awesome powerful vaporizers out there and the countless custom mods etc. Power, more power its the human drive.

 

[Fraser Soderstrom]

there is variable wattage in an insertable for tube mods called the kick. just takes a smaller battery to use because of the space it takes up. And there is smart analysis of cartos in the lava tube to prevent the frying of low res. and the new one also has a built in ohm meter. now if they can just put this all in one package it would be a money maker. The tech is there so all you electrical engineers get to work so we have the next big thing. I would but I don't have the knowledge of combining the circuits.

 

[konceptz]

there is variable wattage in an insertable for tube mods called the kick. just takes a smaller battery to use because of the space it takes up. And there is smart analysis of cartos in the lava tube to prevent the frying of low res. and the new one also has a built in ohm meter. now if they can just put this all in one package it would be a money maker. The tech is there so all you electrical engineers get to work so we have the next big thing. I would but I don't have the knowledge of combining the circuits.

Forgive me I've misunderstood you but I believe the provari, to name one does ohm, variable voltage and a battery voltage check.

Nicotine per part meter would be nice but that's just because I don't have a trusted brand yet. Otherwise your ideas may have already been implemented.

 

[nnote]

I think re-buildables are gonna be more prominent.
Otherwise what would be nice? A wick that wicked enough not to burn.

 

[Fraser Soderstrom]

the provari does have an ohm meter built in as well as a battery check that is true but it doesn't have the option for changing wattage which would be nice because then you could run a higher voltage and get a hotter vape while still not burning your fluid. that's what i find amazing about the bombshell i have i think its wattage is regulated in such a way i can run 6 volts with a 3ohm single coil tank and not burn my juice. but the same on my lavatube and the flavor is horrendous. And i have found the wicks in the CE series of stuff wicks plenty to never burn the only time i have had issues with burning material is in the cartos because they use a plastic filler to feed the juice instead of a silica wick.

 

[Hoosier]

Um, nothing adds up there. P=VV/R so 6 volts with 3 Ohms is 36/3=12 Watts. If you're not getting that, then you are not using 6 volts. Wattage is controlled by controlling amps, or volts. To say that voltage control is not wattage control, in a circuit with a fixed resistance, is to say the gas pedal does not control the speed of a car. It makes no sense according to any of the DC theory text books I've ever read.

You can control voltage by regulating current and that is also wattage control. You can control current by voltage regulation and that is wattage control. Power is the product of potential and flow. P=VI. Control VI and you control P.

I'm open to an explanation of how I don't understand wattage control if you can explain how a non-Evolve device controls wattage in "such a manner" that does not involve current clipping and a large delta between non-loaded and loaded voltage. (Because we know a control circuit with that kind of delta shouldn't really be called a control circuit.)

(Evolve devices are not voltage control devices so there is no voltage setting so they are not germane to the proposed issue.)

 

[CommaHolly]

Where I see the technology going? I'm not certain, the technology is too controversial and young to tell. Big pharma could buy an ecig company, or big tobacco. Oh, wait they already have. See Lorillard » Investor Relations Highlights.

While some see this as a good thing, I do not. Given the shady history of tobacco companies, the only good coming from this I see would be the push to make them definitively legal for public consumption and regulated for consistency industry-wide. However I think the negatives outweigh the positives given this acquisition in the long run. I see Lorillard legalizing ecigs, then going to step 2, making ecigs more addictive, while putting their top scientists and chemist to use to develop chemicals that would be used in ecigs to enhance nicotine absorption rates. Pretty soon, given that timeline, ecigs will likely only be slightly safer than traditional cigarettes. I'm not even going into sin taxes that would inevitably be placed on ecigs should this happen.

Battery technology has been the slow kid in the class of technological evolution. There are countless claims of new battery technology that will make power companies go bankrupt, and cut ties with fossil fuel forever. Lies. There is hope, however. There are batteries being researched and developed at Renssealer Polytechnic Institute, that are printed on paper. See Rensselaer Research Review, Fall 2007: "Beyond Batteries: Storing Power in a Sheet of Paper" Page 1

There are many ways ecigs can go from here, let's just hope those who profit from them don't become corrupt, and keep their purpose as originally intended: As a safer alternative to smoking tobacco cigarettes.

sigh. This is kind of what I am worried about. and I'm no mechanical engineer,,,,,,,,just a travel agent. sigh.

 

[CommaHolly]

LOL, DD suggested solar e-cigs that would charge in the sun

 

[X P3 Flight Engineer]

As a former member of a Profession that has been (almost) completely replaced by Integrated Circuit chips, I guess I would be a bad candidate for predicting future trends! Lol

But here goes, I'm thinking the next thing we will need (we won't know we needed it until it has been developed and marketed to us) will be a Heads Up Display (HUD) that can display:

Ohms	Watts	Volts (to Atomizer)
Battery Voltage	Atomizer Coil Temperature	E-Juice Viscosity
Battery Life Remaining	Battery Temperature	E-Juice Remaining
GPS Distance and Direction to Nearest E-Juice Vendor	New Product Alert	Smokes Avoided Counter
Puffs per Hour (Instant)	Puffs per Hour (Average)	Puffs Remaining

Of course it will have the Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) and Locator Strobe so you can find the one you dropped on the lawn before the lawnmower does.

The ProVari will come with a LoJack system so it can be disabled if it is stolen.

 

[Troy1troy]

there is variable wattage in an insertable for tube mods called the kick. just takes a smaller battery to use because of the space it takes up. And there is smart analysis of cartos in the lava tube to prevent the frying of low res. and the new one also has a built in ohm meter. now if they can just put this all in one package it would be a money maker. The tech is there so all you electrical engineers get to work so we have the next big thing. I would but I don't have the knowledge of combining the circuits.

I have a ProVari and a LavaTube and if I could get a ProVari with a the wattage control of a kick built in but shaped and crafted just like the normal ProVari with the 18650 etc I would be in heaven. I would set it at 8 watts or so and never look back. As it is now I have a lavatube in case I have a finicky carto and a tank full of juice. I don't think the shape of a darwin is something i'm interested in (wish it were a tube).

 

[Water Plus Fire]

Hell, I'm still trying to figure out how a "watt" is applied to a device in the manner these are used. Amp = Current, Volt = Power, Watt = Rate of Exchange of afore mentioned energies. I just don't get it but I don't have to. As long as I'm getting a good vape, let the brain buckets figure it out. Haha

 

[frosting]

I wouldn't call myself an engineer but being a DIY juicer with vials, syringes, eyedroppers and all the gear that comes along with it... I like to consider myself a little bit of a scientist to some degree. Writing down the recipes... tweaking the recipes... all the experiments until you reach the "Eureka!" moment.