New Review: Linx Hypnos Zero, A Vape Pen With Style

We added a fresh new review to our site for the Linx Hypnos Zero, which is a vape that’s been around for a bit that we hadn’t gotten around to testing until more recently. After some pretty extensive testing, we’ve finally managed to put our thoughts down on paper (digital paper) in the form of our recently published review it. What’s it all about? We’ll tell you.

The Hypnos Zero is a portable pen vape that doesn’t work with dry blends, just concentrates. But you know what they say about being a jack of all trades. In this case, the Zero makes no attempt to do it all but it does do the one thing it sets out to do quite well and that’s vaporize extracts. It’s a little lacking in the battery life department as well as the capacity department (oven only holds so much), but this aside, it’s actually a great vape. You don’t have a lot of options to fiddle around with, which is a good thing in some sense as it makes it easy to use, but it might have been nice to have a little more control over the oven’s temperature. Still, with its 4 temperature settings, it manages to provide enough range for us to get some really nice vapor on par with what we like to see out of our pens. The heat up time is basically amazing, as is the case with most concentrate-only pen vaporizers that we’ve come across. It basically heats up in an instant so you’re not waiting around, you just load it up, hit the power button and start drawing. Simple.

This is what Linx’s Hypnos Zero looks like. Portable? Absolutely.

One of the design features that we really like about it is its standard 510 threading which allows you to connect basically any vape accessory you want, assuming it’s 510 threaded. You can use its battery to power your other atomizers or you can use its atomizer with other batteries.

Given that it’s a pen, it’s obviously pretty compact. It measures just a bit under 11 centimeters long and weighs less than 50 grams. Lightweight and compact? Definitely.

There’s really only one aspect of it that’s annoying: the auto-shutoff timer. If the way it works doesn’t bother you, you’ll be all set with this one because just about every other aspect of it is on point. We like, that much is for sure.

When using it, we like to use the highest temp setting as it results in the best cloud production. For taste though, we like to user the lower temps because they do a better job of maintaining the flavor profile of the blend. And on the lowest setting, just as reference, the vapor is barely visible or not at all. The highest setting is pretty much the opposite – highly visible clouds of potent vapor.

The whole thing is powered by a 650 mAh battery, which is why it doesn’t last that long. Other vapes have 3000+ mAh batteries, which are obviously much more powerful and capable of providing power for that much longer.

Aesthetically, this is one of the most appealing pen vapes we’ve used. It looks great. Simple, but cool.

To learn more about its accessories, its vapor quality, and everything else, we suggest you continue reading about this vape on our site. Our in-depth review has a lot of information. A lot. But before we go, we just want to note: this vape is cheap. It’s not expensive and that’s one reason why you might want to take a look at it because it’s a serious contender for your pocket space as it’s inexpensive and works well. Mind you, it’s really only good if you have access to extracts. If you don’t have that, you don’t want this.

As always, this blog post, a quick review summary of the Linx Hypnos Zero vaporizer, is brought to you by VaporizerShark.com.

New Portable Vape: Ghost MV1 (Preview)

We haven’t had a chance to review this vape quite yet but we expect to soon. In the meantime, we’ve put together a little preview of the Ghost MV1 vaporizer on our site. It’s being touted by some as the best thing since sliced bread, but that’s questionable. We haven’t tried it yet so we can’t say for sure. However, if what’s been said is true, it’s a good vape and one that we’re going to have to take a close look at in 2018. Thus far, what we know about it, if the information we have is correct, is that it’s quick to heat up, supports all types of blend (dry+concentrate), and it has a user-replaceable battery. It also has multiple heat settings, but from what we gather, no precision controls that allow you to choose the exact temp you’d like to vape on.

This is the portable dual-use vaporizer by Ghost Vapes, the Ghost MV1.

Supposedly, it doesn’t char your blend, just vaporizes it nice and even. It also manage to prolong the flavor profile for an extended period of time, which, if true, is very nice to hear. We can’t wait to try it based on all that we’ve heard about it thus far.

It’s powered by two batteries, which take about two and a half hours to recharge. Apparently, when fully charged, it’s able to provide something like 100 or more hits.

The size though, this is an area that doesn’t seem all that impressive. Apparently, it’s about the size of the Crafty, which is to say that it’s not all that portable. Will it fit in a pocket? Maybe, but probably not comfortably if it does.

This post was brought to you by VaporizerShark.com and we’ll try to update it when we have more information on this vape. Until then, check out the preview on our site because we have more information about it there. If you’ve tried the MV1, drop a comment and let us know what you think!

Need A Portable eRig / eNail? Here’s One For You

Alright, so, for starters, we really aren’t big fans of the whole dab rig movement. Using a torch is just too much for us. It’s too much effort, it gets too hot, and we’re just not fans of how complicated and unnecessary it all is, especially when you can vape your concentrates instead. And that’s where the portable eRig come into play. Dr. Dabber, a vaporizer manufacturer, makes a really cool one that you might not have seen yet and it’s called the Boost. We reviewed the latest version of this portable eNail, the Boost Black Edition and that’s what we’re going to tell you about today.

This is a portable eRig made by Dr. Dabber called the Boost (Black Edition). Forget the torch and get with the times.

The Dr. Dabber Boost Black Edition is a portable eRig that requires no torch to vaporize dabs. It’s not really all that portable, especially when you add one of Dr. Dabber’s awesome glass water filters to it, but it definitely does the trick and it’s a whole lot easier to carry around than your average rig and torch combo. So we gave it a try and what did we find? It’s better than we thought and a whole lot more pleasant to use than your average rig, or at least that’s how we feel about it.

How It Works

Basically, with this vape, all you’re doing is applying your dabs to one of its nails, either titanium, quartz, or ceramic. Your choice. It heats up to temperatures much higher than typical vaporizer, but that’s okay seeing as dabs are basically filtered down to what matters so you don’t have to worry about that excess matter to begin with. With that in mind, it heats up hundreds of degrees higher than your average portable dry blend vape. It actually runs all the way up to 610F, which is really hot by vaporizer standards. And to simplify everything, all you have to do is press one button. No torch necessary. But seeing as it gets pretty hot, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to find that it takes anywhere from about 30 to 45 seconds to reach optimal temperatures. That’s really not a long time and if you’ve ever used a traditional rig, this probably doesn’t like much time at all given how much time goes into getting the nail ready with the torch.

How Long It Lasts

When fully charged, the battery will provide anywhere from 20 to 30 sessions, which is a lot given that it doesn’t take much to get the job done when you’re vaping concentrates.

Everything Else

The cleaning is pretty low effort, which is nice. There aren’t really any temperature options, just two settings, which simplifies things but we’d still prefer to see more because we prefer to have more control over the heating element, but the two settings are definitely enough to get the job done. There are a lot of accessories available, but the ones to really take a look at are the glass water filters that Dr. Dabber makes. With them, you can replace the stock one which isn’t all that great and take it to the next level, bringing it up to par with what you’d expect from a high-end dab rig. The warranty is solid. The vapor quality is impressive. All things considered, it’s a really nice alternative to the rig and torch combo that too many of you are still using. Check out our full Dr. Dabber Boost review to learn more. You might be surprised by what you learn. It’s definitely worth a read if you’re looking for something easier to use than your old torch and rig combo.

As is the case with all of the posts on this blog, this post was brought to you by Vaporizer Shark. We test, rate, and review vapes so you don’t have to!

New Portable Vaporizer Review: AirVape XS By Apollo

Apollo is a company that some of you may not have heard of even if you’re pretty keen on what’s going on in the vape space, but there’s a reason that you might have and it’s likely their ultra slim AirVape XS vaporizer. While it’s not particularly special in anyway other than its size, it is a pretty good vape. We’d rate it like B/B- or so, which is actually how we rated it if you translate the percentage-based rating on our site for it into a grade like you’d see on a report card issued by a school. But anyways, this vape offers quite a bit: large display, ability to vape dried blends and concentrates, an isolated airpath like the one that the Boundless CFX has that we recently talked about here on our blog, and the pass-through charging technology that lets you use it while you charge it. Obviously, it has some nice features, but what really makes it special is its compact design that’s extremely thin. In fact, this might just be the thinnest dry blend portable vaporizer out there – or at the least, the thinnest that we’ve ever tried. Clearly though, there’s more to a vaporizer than how thin it is. Fortunately, Apollo (the company that makes this vape) has managed to put together a vape that’s more than just compact, it’s actually useful because it does what it really needs to do (create vapor) and it does pretty darn well.

This is the blue version of the AirVape XS. Super slim, large digital display, and enough features that we can’t help but wonder how Apollo stuffed so much into this vape while keeping it so small.

Stats Breakdown

Here’s an overview of the “stats” for this vape, as we like to call them. It heats up in approximately 20 seconds (fast), it uses a ceramic oven and glass mouthpiece (tasty), it’s pretty easy to clean and you don’t have to clean it all that often (convenient), it weighs less than a pound (light), and it produces vapor of a density that we didn’t really expect to see from a vape this small. But there are some downsides. For one, its battery isn’t all that powerful. It’s a 1300 mAh, which hardly compares to the 3000 mAh and above batteries that we see in some of the other portables. So as you might suspect based on the limitation of its battery, it doesn’t last all that long before you need to plug it in and recharge it. The other issue, and really the only other issue that we have with it, is its screen. It’s a nice screen and we’re not really complaining, but it could definitely be a bit brighter. When it’s bright out, it can prove a bit difficult to see unless you shade the screen with your hand. But these aren’t real problems and not anything that we’ve lost sleep over so we assume you’ll feel similarly about it in this regard as it’s still a good vape. It’s also inexpensive, which is obviously a good thing, especially if you’re on a tight budget.

The Review

So we mentioned that we reviewed this vape, or at least, the title of this blog post certainly implies it. And that’s exactly the case. Our review, however, is not this blog post. No, not at all. This is more of a quick summary of our review. Our real review, the complete version, can be found on our site and it’s packed full of details that we’ve left out of this little summary. It includes tips on how to use it, a full assessment of its vapor, the exact dimensions and weight of the vaporizer, a list of its accessories, information about its heating element, and a whole lot more. It’s basically a compilation of everything you’d ever want to know about the XS. So if you really want to know more about this vape, then you’re going to want to take a long hard look at what we have to say about it in our complete review. One thing that we’ve omitted from this summary that we should probably add is the fact that its wax cup insert isn’t designed to support liquid blends, only waxy concentrates and the like. We want to make sure you understand this in case you were thinking you could vape liquids like e-juices with it because you can’t. In fact, you may very well ruin the vape if you try so don’t even bother. Just wanted to get that out of the way so none of you reading this go out and get one and then ruin it shortly after by trying to vaporize liquids with it. Anyways, if you want to know more about it, the Air Vape XS, then take a look at our review. And while you’re there, check out some of the other vapes we’ve reviewed because there are some real gems out there and if the XS isn’t quite right for you, you’ll almost certainly find one reviewed on our site that is.

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