Wouldn't the FDA action in April put a hold on any development on batteries for ecigs? I mean other countries have already put a ban on ecigs.
It can't put a hold on what isn't happening, nobody is developing batteries for ecigs, every single battery used in any and all ecigs are just batteries from a different industry that have been re-purposed for ecig use. By re-purposed I mean shoved inside a fancy metal case and calling it a day. Don't look to ecig makers for battery technology, look elsewhere. People are pouring more money into battery research for other purposes than all the money that's been spent in the ecig industry since it's inception.
That's where the new technology will come from. Then you have to wait several years for this technology to become available for ecig companies, become cheap enough for our purposes, and become safe enough for our purposes. A battery the size of a penny with 2,000 mAh doesn't matter if it needs a liquid nitrogen cooling system or else it explodes.
I had an idea about a new power source for ecigs, not sure how it could be executed though.
I was thinking of having a cigalike battery with a capacitor and some sort of thermoelectric material on the tip of the cig. You take a lighter and "light" your ecig, but all you are doing is charging up the capacitor with heat from the lighter's flame. The capacitor lasts long enough for 10-15 puffs or whatever, like a real cig. Then if you want to keep vaping you could 'light" another cig by reheating the tip of the cig, which charges the capacitor again.
I know technology exists to take heat and turn it into electricity, and I know technology exists to have a capacitor that could power an ecig for 10-15 puffs, I just don't know if it's possible to get it all working together in a small enough package.
You could slightly modify this idea, and use a fake lighter that houses the main battery pack, and have a cigalike with a capacitor in in. Have some tiny contacts that allow the fake lighter's battery to recharge the cigalike's capacitor enough for 10-15 puffs.
None of this is really new technology, just a new approach to the whole ecig thing.
I agree that atomizer and juice feeding technology is really where I want things to get better. A coil, wick, and tank of juice is too old school.
I want micropumps supplying juice and ultrasonic atomizers! Now that would make me happy.
Why the heck isn't there an ultrasonic atomizer!!??
