Hitoki Trident hands-on: I’m in love with a $500 laser-blasting water pipe

Tright here isn’t any higher, brighter, extra shining instance of humanity’s immeasurable resourcefulness and engineering creativeness than within the myriad methods we’ve give you to get stoned, whether or not we’re smoking it, consuming it, ingesting it, urgent it between two actually sizzling plates after which smoking the gooey runoff or gently heating it in a ceramic crucible to vacuum off the atomized blissful crystals. However by no means earlier than in human historical past — despite the fact that you gotta assume these CERN people know learn how to celebration — have we smoked weed with lasers. The Hitoki Trident is the desktop flower water pipe that goes pew pew pew to get you excessive excessive excessive, and I’m in love love love.

The Trident oozes futuristic sophistication, like if the Demise Star had been a bong. I’m actually impressed with its exact design and high quality machined aluminum development. You’ll be able to hear it because the water chamber seal securely hisses closed, really feel it within the clunk-click because the higher laser housing seats onto the heating chamber — it’s the identical confident thunk you get within the closing doorways of a Rolls-Royce — even the silicon hose feels of superior-quality materials, not that cheap-as-shit PVC tubing some manufacturers use. Nothing leaks, nothing rattles, nothing sloshes, nothing will get weirdly sizzling for no cause. I’m genuinely impressed.

I really feel like utilizing the Trident ought to be extra sophisticated than it’s given what number of bits and items go into it. The machine consists of three sections: the decrease water chamber, the middle water filter base, and the higher battery/laser meeting. Unscrew the acrylic water cylinder, fill it 1 / 4 full, twist it again onto the water filter base holding the ceramic loading chamber, which it’s best to have full of shredded plant materials. Insert the draw hose (or optionally available $30 silicone mouthpiece) into its port on the aspect of the unit. Slot and twist the higher stage onto the 2 decrease sections and double-tap the facility button on prime to unleash a 9-second blast from its 445nm laser, vaporizing the vegetation. Now, after I say vaporizing on this context, I don’t imply like what a Volcano does, leaving desiccated however still-intact plant matter behind. I imply vaporized, like Terminator 2 vaporized.

The smoke will filter by means of the decrease water chamber as you draw and an built-in carb on the again of the unit permits for simple chamber clearance. The Trident can deal with each flower and focus, although simply plunking a glob of budder within the heating chamber is a surefire methodology of clogging every thing up — you’ll must pad the underside of the bowl with a little bit of flower and prime the focus as an alternative.

The unit may even pull double responsibility as an aroma remedy machine however if you happen to’re paying this a lot simply to incinerate some dried lavender and make the room odor fairly, we’re going to want to speak about your spending priorities. There are candles for that.

You have to to take away the higher part between attracts and poke on the heating chamber to clear the airflow ports, although you’ll solely must do it as soon as per bowl as a result of there’s usually nothing left however a little bit of carbon ash after two rounds with the laser. Cleansing is simple as properly — give the decrease chamber a wipedown everytime you change the water, sweep out the heating chamber between periods, and infrequently rub the crucible out with a little bit of isopropyl. Simply don’t drop the laser meeting, that’s the one piece that the corporate doesn’t sell individual replacements of.

The 1400 mAh capability battery costs by way of a USB-C port and an included 5A wall plug. It’ll take about 90 minutes after unboxing to totally cost the unit for the primary time however after that, requires solely occasional powerups. The corporate claims that every full battery is sweet for practically 300 periods and I’ve but to recharge it, 6 grams and a pair dozen bowls into testing.

I recognize the immediateness of the method as properly. You’re not sitting there ready for a bag to fill or a chamber to electronically warmth, and even for leaves to catch fireplace and burn. You activate the laser, and by the point you suppose to start inhaling, there are clouds of dense smoke — cool, filtered and able to say howdy to your alveoli.

My solely two bugaboos are with the size of the hose and its energy button colour scheme. Given the Trident’s tall, slim and customarily top-heavy cylinder form, I do fear about misjudging the size of hose obtainable and tipping the unit over to probably disastrous penalties. And if I’m going to make use of the Trident as a conversion piece — a central focus for my smoking room — I don’t need one thing that will likely be handed round like a standard mild bulb. An extended hose might accommodate a extra subtle social smoking expertise — give me one thing gaudy, shiny and metallic, that I can poke company with whereas making a degree.

Additionally, and I do know that is dumb however the truth that the warmth stage indication on the prime of the unit begins at pink as the good setting, then inexperienced for medium and blue for the best warmth drives me nuts. That’s the inverse of what the remainder of the trade makes use of — blue or inexperienced is at all times the good with pink and white on the prime. It kinda is smart to have blue be hottest right here because the laser’s wavelength is within the blue a part of the spectrum however it nonetheless throws me. With an MSRP of $500, the Trident is pricey — PS5-level expensive. Out there in both black or rose gold, it’s $30 greater than a Volcano Classic (although nonetheless $200 lower than the newer Hybrid version) and $100 greater than the Puffco Peak Pro.