Companies hope that biometric age-verification tech in cartridges could put flavored vapes back in business. But it’s unlikely to solve the real problems.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260328113729/https://www.wired.com/story/your-vape-wants-to-know-how-old-you-are/
But THE BLOCKCHAIN! Remember that time before everything was AI this and GPT that?
A simpler time where you could pay thousands of dollars to “own” a digital file nobody wanted and could freely copy.
A time where words like “memecoin” were commonplace on national news stations.
A time when everyone was trying to get you to invest in something they didn’t understand because the lines kept going up?