We live in a world where even your toaster is smarter than your average politician, well almost. The frontier for tech & AI is clear for all that which it can be used with. That brings us to vapings new world integrations. Let’s discuss the past present and future of this forever growing & adaptable habit.
What Does It Mean to Integrate Tech into Vaping
Vaping has always been a form of technology, just look at the precision behind its coils, batteries, and digital screens displaying everything from battery life to flavour levels. In fact, we already have smart vapes on the market with built-in apps for music, step tracking, WhatsApp, calendars, and even weather updates, basically a pocket-sized smartphone that happens to produce clouds.
The next wave of tech integration will focus on experience and functionality. Think draw sensors that learn your rhythm, intelligent battery chips, advanced temperature control, and touchscreens offering an entire suite of phone-like applications, all designed to make vaping smarter, smoother, and more intuitive.
Many of these innovations already exist in prototype form or in limited releases, but haven’t yet reached mainstream affordability. The real turning point for vaping tech will come when these “bells and whistles” become standard, not premium, when advanced integration is as common as the vape itself.
What Does It Mean to Integrate AI into Vaping
To clarify the big difference between these two (Tech = functionality & tools) and (AI = Decision making and adaptive learning). My instincts tell me we are a long way off from this era, although I believe the integration won’t be too hard a feat. We can only imagine what it would be like, so let’s try.
AI will make the experience profoundly better by manipulating the only tools it can:
- Battery: Your battery will only use power when and where it needs to, touch screens will only turn on when you are looking at it and coils will only heat up when there is someone pulling/drawing from the vape.
- Coils: AI will learn how hot you like you coils (ultimate taste satisfaction). The AI will ask questions and make suggestions to curate this experience.
- Juice: Same thing for this, after some time using the vape & giving it instructions on which flavors you like, the vape can adjust naturally VG & PG or even add new mixes to your juice to curate the ultimate concoctions.
- Alternate features: Adaptability to your goals and mood. Maybe you are trying to quit, so asking the vape to help you means less smoke and less nicotine every day. Even nighttime mode can be activated, using more drowsy terpenes to allow for better sleep.
These are only some features we can assume might happen. The reality is that it will get a lot more complex that just that, there is always another step to take towards convenience for mankind.
What Companies Are Already Doing It: Smart Vape Examples
This falls more on the side of Heets than vaping, but they are going a similar direction.
IQOS (Philip Morris International)
The IQOS app connects via Bluetooth to your device, letting you see diagnostics, usage history, lock/unlock device features, adjust illumination, manage smart gestures, & more.
Via the app, you can personalize features (vibration, LED, etc.), access tutorials and troubleshooting, track your consumption statistics, do firmware updates, and more.
PAX Labs
Here we have a company that is doing this with cannabis dry herb vaporizers. What they are doing is revolutionary for the industry.
Their app allows you to: set temperature preferences (fine-tune by degree), find compatible pods, read pod ingredient info, monitor vapor/heat settings, see usage stats. They collect session data (temperature used, length of sessions, etc.). The PAX “device finder” (PAXFinder) lets you locate your device through the app/web dashboard.
Vaporesso (AXON Chip & smarter control)
This is more on the actual vaping side we are meant to be looking at, in terms of PG & VG vapes.
They’ve created the AXON chip, which supports multiple intelligent modes: F(t) mode (flavour balancing), Pulse mode (pulsing during a puff), Smart TC (temperature control that auto-recognizes coil type), and a DIY mode. The AXON supports UI simplification, auto-coil recognition, power-saving optimization (Power ECO), and more.
There you have it
These companies are already doing the impossible, pushing boundaries and creating a fully developed systems that can update on its own. This is happening “as we have seen” to all types of vapes.
What Could Be the Major Benefits of This
These systems new AI & Tech systems ideas could help people with many healthy daily acts. The AI could be used to help those with addiction to slowly ween them off the nicotine and amount they smoke. The technology can & will improve coil temperatures to make sure they don’t burn or overheat your e-liquid.
Warnings can be given to vapers with low E-liquid left or if the coil has gotten too old, ensuring they don’t smoke carcinogens from burnt coils. These vapes will last longer and won’t be replaced, rather fixed, which also helps tremendously with the environment. No more disposables lying everywhere causing pollution and fire hazards.
Possible dangers of Vapings New World Integrations
Privacy and surveillance, cameras on vapes could be a risk of exposing people’s privacy. Data captured on accounts that will be created could be sold or misused as well. Using these analytics for marketing & not for the consumers benefit.
Dependency on the AI model to give you the best experience, this can cause more addiction problems in a serious way. Life without the device can cause anxiety and stress because of dependency. Glitches in the systems may cause false analytics and possibly cause unwanted nicotine increases.
Conclusion
Vaping will not stop growing, just like cigarettes they will become so undeniably good that the phase will never pass. We can only hope that the future leans to a healthier mindset, less nicotine and smoke, more gadgets and colors. The future of vaping is in anyone’s hands.
