Among the appeared at CES smartphones were those for which their characteristics are not important. Among them, the smartphone, or rather “separation” Jupiter IO 3, which can… Smoking. Because it is combined with electronic cigarette. Of course, Smoking, including electronic cigarettes is a harmful habit to acquire which is not worth it even for the most attractive and fashionable gadget. In this device is the most interesting thing is that it is the combination of two seemingly very different modern gadgets. As noted earlier, the butts of regular cigarettes can be used to create capacitors.
With this amazing phone was able to get acquainted to the browser The Verge Ben Popper (Ben Popper), who wrote about it in an illustrated article, “I smoked a smartphone at CES” with the attached video, published resource. Previously, the development of Jupiter, he wrote an illustrated article, “This smartphone you can smoke is the ultimate vaporware”, published by The Verge, but just now he had a chance to use such an unusual device.
It should be noted that electronic cigarette in fact is not a cigarette because it emits no smoke, and steam, and its properties are closer to the inhaler.
He writes that the phone had not been represented at the exhibition, but it brought him right to the hotel room. Technology week this year was poor on fun technology products, and was fit already and get bored a bit, but then Ben Popper showed the phone-“cigarette”.
Jupiter IO 3 — 3G-smartphone running the Android operating system KitKat 4.4. It is alleged that he has enough energy for 16 hours on a single charge, since it has two batteries, one of which supplies power to the cell phone and the “cigarette”. The buyer such a funny miracle of technology will cost $ 299.
The company informs about their plans in a few months to release a similar 4G smartphones at a price of 499 USD. Other technical parameters, including characteristics of the camera, are still unknown.
The vendor of this unusual smartphone Vaporcade also supplies electronic cigarettes, electronic cigars and coffee. To insert the cartridge with the liquid, it is necessary to open a small plastic cover, located at the top. This cover is also fixed and the mouthpiece. Located on top of the button allows you to increase the heat and thereby increase the amount of steam.
Cartridges with liquids are $ 15. Fluid can be with tastes of mint, peach and coffee. In Vaporcade say that one cartridge will last approximately 800 puffs, which corresponds to four packs of traditional cigarettes. Set in the Vaporcade phone app tracks how much energy and fluid is spent, what flavor liquid is used now and how many puffs have been made by the user. If the user wants to quit Smoking or to reduce the scale of its Smoking, it can set targets and will receive a notification when the number of hits, which he defined as the limit has been reached.
As for the impact of “electronic cigarettes” to health in comparison to usual cigarettes, this question remains open and will be for a very long time. Will require long-term studies to determine the impact on health they have and can cause the formation of habits.
Ben Popper concludes his narrative with the words:
Am I ready to use Jupiter instead of your phone number as your primary device? Of course not. I think it’s a fun device, which was really fun to use in the club, if you want a little extra brightness. Quite definitely.
No doubt, this phone is one of the most unusual and unexpected even against the least similar to other smartphones.
In fact, we are talking about the hardware of a smartphone additional device integrated into the device software, than there is nothing new in principle — after all, many modern phones even not one but two cameras, and even suggests that over time, users will be able to change the camera of your device.
What built-in smartphone technologies, in addition to the camera, could become popular?