With the marketplace over saturated with gimmicky vaporizing devices and celebrity endorsements, it’s become increasingly difficult to recognize a superior product when it crosses your path. However, for the Ploom Pax, it’s apparent from the second it touches your hands that this is the Bugatti Veyron of smoking devices.

From the incredibly convenient features to its innovative, futuristic machinations, The Pax offers an unparalleled experience that allows you to enjoy a healthy helping of marijuana without slowing down your day or causing any unwanted attention in the process. The fear of leaving a room full of smoke or passing on the stench of blunt wraps is an issue that you no longer have to gripe with as the Pax provides an odorless and private device that any smoker can appreciate in 2012.

Joints were for the 1960′s, blunts were appealing in the 1990′s, and bongs were a novelty during our high school years, but it’s time to keep up with the technological advances that only make smoking more fun. With a smartphone in hand and a tablet in your clutches, it’s almost unthinkable to want to manually smoke anymore. The health risks are obvious and state legislation is constantly taking strides to limit a smoker’s opportunities to spark up in public. Why would you revert back to an antiquated way of indulging in the earth’s finest yields with methods that predate the internet?

PAX uses the process of vaporization to offer a superior alternative to smoking – heating the leaf instead of burning it, and releasing active ingredients and natural oils into a resulting subtle vapor. Vaporization produces no combustion, therefore eliminating second-hand smoke. PAX is a cleaner, sleeker, and more respectful way to smoke.

“We founded Ploom to revolutionize vaporization and set our sights on designing and developing the highest quality portable vaporizer ever created. Today marks the launch of PAX and the achievement of that goal,” said James Monsees, Ploom Co-Founder.

The mouthpiece retracts into the anodized aluminum body when not in use and serves as the on/off switch while an LED indicator light on the outside lets you know when your next puff is ready — in as little as 30 seconds, depending on the conditions.

To recharge the internal battery, simply drop it onto the included dock — which also makes it easy to find next time you’re heading out the door. There remains to be a number of devices that may seem like a novelty, but we are here to assure you that the Pax is as much of a necessity as your iPhone or Blackberry. Seeing our beloved Elite Daily users coping for even one more day without this device in their own hands is a sin that we cannot sleep on.

Go out and do your loved ones a favor: Purchase

Tom Cooper | Elite.