Pixel Perfect Puffs: How Vape Hardware Fell Head Over Heels for Retro Design
Walk into any vape shop these days and you might feel a strange sense of déjà vu — like someone raided a 1980s video rental store and a 1990s arcade on the same afternoon. Retro aesthetics have taken over vape hardware in a big way, from VHS-tape packaging to pixel art displays and full-on cyberpunk color schemes. We dug into why manufacturers are betting so hard on nostalgia, and what it says about the people buying these devices.