Best List: Pax 2 vaporizer by Ploom
Putting your mouth around a Pax 2 vaporizer is like smoking the future.
At a time when every other vape company is making smoke boxes that look giant battery packs with an exhaust pipe, Ploom — the Silicon Valley-based startup behind the Pax loose-leaf vaporizers — is killing the market with a dank dose of subtlety.
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The Pax 2 is a super-compact, rechargeable vaporizer that looks nothing like a vape. You can use it to smoke tobacco, weed, oregano or pretty much any other plant matter you desire, only no one will know that you’re vaping.
Switching to vape
There are two main reasons why you should consider switching to a vape: 1) It looks a lot more adult than carrying around joints, pipes and bongs. 2) It’s a lot healthier than inhaling all the nasty tar, carcinogens and other noxious chemicals that enter your lungs when burning plant matter.
The design of the tiny Pax 2 vape is so simple it looks like it came out of Apple’s design lab. The vape appears to be just a straightforward metal tube, or maybe a battery of some sort, making it a pretty incognito tool for getting your fix no matter where you’re at. Every person that has happened to see me use it has been utterly perplexed as to its function until I reveal the Pax 2’s secret.
Many smokers may be familiar with Ploom’s original vape, the Pax 1, which was billed as “the iPod of vaporizers” but didn’t quite live up to the hype due to some critical flaws. With the Pax 2, Ploom has fixed most of the issues by somehow making the vape smaller with even better battery life and a deeper oven. Ploom even added a couple new tricks like Party Mode, which keeps the standby time on longer for when you’re sharing with friends.
So simple, a stoner can use it
Using the Pax 2 vaporizer is so easy it will turn your mom into a pothead. Simply open the magnetic hatch at the bottom, fill the oven with a bit of green, power it on, and then gently suck in the vapor steaming out of the discreet opening at the top. Pax 2 comes with four different temperature settings. The lower two heat options are recommended. If you ratchet the heat all the way up you get a lot more smoke, but it burns through your supply much more quickly and less efficiently.
Cleaning the Pax 2 couldn’t be any more simple. Once the device starts getting clogged, just pop off the top and bottom pieces. Then shove a pipe cleaner soaked in alcohol through the top hole a few times and it’s good as new. Because vaping is cleaner than smoking, you’ll only have to do maintenance once a month or so.
The future comes with a price
Almost everything about the Pax 2 vaporizer is absolutely magical except for the charging. Instead of going with something more universal like mini-USB, the Pax 2 can only be charged with its proprietary inductive charger. Carrying around another charging cable is kind of a pain, and if you break or lose the inductive pad you’re screwed. Thankfully, the Pax 2 battery lasts about 120 minutes, so it only needs to be recharged every couple days.
The only thing that might hold back the Pax 2 from really taking off with the public is its price tag. $230 is a lot to spend on a vaporizer (and this is its sale price on Amazon). Think of how much weed you could buy with that. But if you value your health, and want a discreet way to smoke, it’s totally worth it.
Buy from: Amazon
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