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Steve Bae—an up-and-coming industrial designer from Seoul, Korea—recently tackled a concept for a vaporizer pipe for Peterson of Dublin, which just celebrated its 150th anniversary in business. Bae’s concept fuses a traditional pipe smoking experience and iconic lines like those you’ll find in Sherlock Holmes’s deerstalker hunting cap with modern design and vaporizer technology. Because you hold it like a traditional pipe, the voltage control buttons were relocated into the bowl to make them easier to operate. Bae also designed the bowl with an LED indicator that makes swirls of light to mimic the traditional smoking experience. A new hygienic intake system uses a mouthpiece built into a drawer that slides out of the top. While it’s only a design mock up at this point, we’d be surprised if Peterson of Dublin didn’t reach out to produce it.
