[dejawu]

An ex of mine used disposable vapes and I was shocked by how beautifully designed some of them are - transparent covers with visible inner workings reminiscent of the Nothing phones; custom multi-segment displays for battery and temperature status; original artwork printed in vibrant color on the side. It made me even angrier that these things are meant to just be used once and then thrown out. Of course putting all this e-waste into the environment is a disaster, but to then also treat art and design as similarly disposable feels heartbreakingly cynical on another level entirely.

I collected a few that she was going to throw out, someday™ I'll build some driver boards for the displays and make a little art piece out of them.

[gedy]

Displays? I'm curious to see these if you know what brand these were.

[dejawu]

Looks like one of them is Pyne Pod: https://www.pynepod.com/uploads/bd58c18e.png

The Geek Bar Pulse has the custom multi-segment on the side: https://oss.geekbar.com/products/meloso-ultra/2/Orange%20Cre...

[okdood64]

https://flumgio.com/mello/

[camel_Snake]

cali 8000 model has them as well.