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.
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Huckberry’s Essential Holiday Gift Guide
Unzip your coat and have some mulled wine on the house—you’ve arrived at your final gifting destination: The Holiday Gift Guide. It’s like your friendly neighborhood one-stop holiday shop, except instead of balsa wood ornaments, ours is packed with thoughtful gifts for everyone on your list. Future heirlooms, small-but-significant stocking stuffers, and gear for getting out there (or staying in)—are all right here. There’s no music playing in the background though, so you’ll just have to hum Bing Crosby while you click around instead.
