Ploom: A smarter way to smoke? (what an original idea)

[cykatar]

Stanford graduates Adam Bowen and James Monsees are hoping to transform the way tobacco is consumed with their invention, the Ploom Model One, which is based on low-temperature vaporization. The inventors say their smokeless device provides the rich flavor and nicotine rush of a cigarette but without some of the negative social and environmental concerns associated with smoking.


Ploom: A smarter way to smoke? - SmartPlanet.com

 

[atsirk]

gee, sounds familiar...

 

[Vapenstein]

you mean familiar like this familiar?

Eclipse Cigarettes

 

[Gotcoffee]

I remember when the ploom first came out quite a long time ago. The reviews were not very good.

 

[DocWyatt]

Interesting video, but they essentially "invented" smokeless tobacco several years after it was "invented"... lol. Considering that this was their thesis, that would strongly "smell" of plagarism, lol. Therefore, it seems to me that an "F" would be in order..

But their device is different. They use capsules - somewhat like the Kuerig pods for coffee...would be an analogy. But I fail to see any fundamental difference from what was already on the market.... They are ecigs with a pod. That's it.

I am going to do my thesis on a better way to have light instead of candles - and my thought is to put it in this glass thingy....and use electricity to create the light...

 

[SuziesMom]

I like the idea of butane though...the rest, yeah- pretty much a more expensive alternative to vaping.

 

[Stosh]

But their device is different. They use capsules - somewhat like the Kuerig pods for coffee...would be an analogy. But I fail to see any fundamental difference from what was already on the market.... They are ecigs with a pod. That's it.

Unless I misunderstood the video, they are usin TABACCO in the pods???
just great, a new way to use TABACCO.


I'm sworn off TABACCO and just get my nic from PG/VG vapor.
vape on, vape off, vape on....and on, and on

 

[Toritha]

Doc please send me a copy of your thesis when it's done it sounds intriguing....... lol

 

[DocWyatt]

Doc please send me a copy of your thesis when it's done it sounds intriguing....... lol

LOL, my point was they invented the ecig many years after it was on the market... Kinda funny actually.

Anyhow, Stosh, they aren't using tobacco in any new way, IMO. Where do you think your nicotine comes from? They extract it from tobacco. Whether their method saves more of the tobacco flavor or not, not sure. I very much doubt it. The eliquid suppliers would have copied that long ago....

 

[Gotcoffee]

There are old threads from back in Aug 09, were quite a few people looked into this and even ordered one. It turned out to not live up to the hype. Unless things have changed sense then.

 

[cykatar]

There are old threads from back in Aug 09, were quite a few people looked into this and even ordered one. It turned out to not live up to the hype. Unless things have changed sense then.

That makes more sense then. It came in email today in a Zdnet Newsletter, but it sure seemed like old news.

 

[irefine]

Mom... thanks for sending me to Stanford I invented the light bulb

 

[DocWyatt]

Mom... thanks for sending me to Stanford I invented the light bulb

I know right. The funniest part of this story is when they did their thesis wouldn't a "reasonable" professor say.... "dude, there is one small problem with your thesis on inventing an ecig - it has been on the shelves for years". I mean what in the world. The Ecig was invented by Phillip Morris in 2005. How could a professor at Stanford possibly not notice this?

 

[irefine]

The part I liked is where they say that the sweet taste from the pods is due to PG they add to the tobacco to increase the vapor production LOL!

 

[DocWyatt]

Well, another reason to never listen to "academics". They live in a bubble and a textbook. Precisely why Keynesian economics will never work - ever. Unfortunately that is exactly the path we have chosen....very bad idea.

 

[BobTheKlown]

Well...
If you watch the video, they ARE using tobacco, it's a ground tobacco, that's heated to beyond it's 'burning' point but without air it never 'burns', it vaporizes...
It does seem like that was what the Eclipse claimed also, and they were awful....

The major difference between these and ecigs, would be the fact that you do get more then just nicotine from these, you would be getting the MAOI's and and allot of the other chems in analogs, because even though you're not 'burning' it, you are vaporizing tobacco, whereas we are vaporizing nicotine and pg/vg...

 

[DocWyatt]

Ok, guess I did not examine it that closely. I was finding comedy that they were claiming to invent smokeless tobacco. But if that's the case, then they deserve credit. But the video gave the impression they "invented" something. Sort of, but not really. They simply used a different concept.