Apple has done the unthinkable, surprising fans and techies and those who vape as well. The company has just recently filed a patent for a vaping unit, suggesting that Apple is eyeing the vaping industry in the coming future.
The patent was first filed in June of 2016 and only released on January 26 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. According to the application, the device is described as a vaporizer which uses high temperatures to convert substances into vapour. The technique in focus here with the device is that the aim is to maximise the vaporization rate making there be lesser loss of substance while it is being converted to vapour.
According to a report by CNN, while vaporizers are more popularly known to be used by those who would like to use substances like nicotine or marijuana, there are also medical uses for vaporizers as well, meaning that the company may have a much bigger plan in mind for its device, if it ever gets close to being released. This can be seen as a positive sign as the United States of America is lowering its policies against recreational marijuana and seeing big companies like Apple take a step towards this industry show that there is a lot of attention towards the technology.
And Apple might also know what it is doing as well, according to Gizmodo’s report, since Apple has created a method that evens out the heating process throughout the bowl, making uneven heating impossible to come across again. But Apple did not provide any comment about their patent or what they would like to use it for. It seems the company is keeping this project under very tight wraps for now.
This patent could also well possibly be a placeholder for when Apple does get to innovating it, much like some its earlier patents which include a bag, a foldable phone, a phone that is made only of screen and much more. At least this time around, let’s hope that when Apple does get to development of this patent, that its trend of omitting popular and much needed necessities like a headphone jack for phones is long forgotten.
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