No doubt. Batteries are in everything we use today and some of the BIG name guys out there (Apple, Motorola, The military, NASA) all have a vested interest in batteries with huge power and in return, smaller size. The problem for us, is we as a community are "cheap". I hate to call Vaping a hobby, but in some ways, it really is. This hobby however is a very budget friendly activity with very very little investment.
I got everything I needed (2 Twists, 3 clearos, replacement heads, and enough juice to keep me puffing for almost a month) for around 100 dollars. If I had gone crazy and went with a Provari, lots of batteries, half a dozen IBTanked tanks, and a gallon of juice to puff for a year my investment would have been 600 or so... If we were talking about competitive shooting as a comparison, that isnt even half the costs of a single firearm let alone ammunition, range fees, club fees, competition entrance fees, etc
My point is, we have more than enough technology today, right this very minute to do almost anything any of us could dream up. The problem is, Vapers would never accept the cost. The Provari is among the "pinnacle" power supply's we can get and a good 3/4ths of us think "oh no way I will ever spend 200 dollars on a battery and a button". Now imagine the power and life of a 1000Mah ego Twist with the functionality of a Provari in something the size and shape of an Analog 100... it could be done with enough engineering and capital investment. Problem? How many of this community would be willing to pay 800-1000 dollars for it, and have a reoccurring cost of say, 10 dollars a day? The NSA or DoD might not bat an eyelash at a 4,000 dollar battery, and sure it is proof of concept, but that kind of technology isnt going to come down to us common people for decades at a cost we would ever accept.
The other issue is, the vast majority of our "stuff" is built by slave labor in China. There is really very little innovation going on. Its a copy of a knock off of a clone of an original idea someone had 6 years ago. The actual innovation is coming from small independent people and small companies. Sure they make their money on things like a Provari but there is no real incentive for a big company to adapt it and produce it on a mass scale because the niche market just cant sustain the sales really needed. This applies to batteries too because for example, a new revolutionary battery comes out for the next-next generation military drones. After a year or 5 the technology trickles down to someone like Apple who is launching the Iphone 23g. We now have a battery that went from someone the size of a car battery to something the size of a cellphone battery. Without a major Ecig company to pick up the research on adapting that battery technology to something the size of Newport 100, the technological evolution ends there.
Like I said, we already have batteries the size of 3 quarters stacked on top of each other that rival the power and capacity of a Ego Twist. They could very easily be modified in shape and size to be the size of the filter on an analog 100 giving you plenty of room for juice container, atty, etc... Why dont we have it? Vapers wont accept the cost and there is no real company with the capital or motivation to engineer/develop it. We are all basically buying cobbled together ChiCom poop and that wont change unless cost goes way way up, or the market for our hobby explodes and there is suddenly there are 130 million vapers in the US alone
But the target customer base is different nowadays - social media like Facebook, Twitter and the like is the target, not actual improvements in vaping gear.
