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Discarded vape pen gets second life as tiny internet server

Ellsworth Toohey
Oct 08, 2025
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A tech-savvy hobbyist turned a thrown-away vape pen into a working website host. Bogdan Ionescu, who collected old vapes mainly for their batteries, found something unexpected inside newer models: actual programmable computer chips rather than basic circuits.

“Instead of the expected black blob of goo hiding some specialized…

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