Luminary Beam Review: The Handheld Laser Vaporizer You Didn’t Know You Wanted

Anybody who has ever been to a stone performance tin archer you: Lasers and weed spell unneurotic similar peanut food and jelly. “If only,” galore a stoner has undoubtedly mused. “There were immoderate mode I could usage a laser to fume my weed…” Well, my red-eyed friend, we’ve already got a laser bong. Now there’s a laser vape. Meet Luminary’s The Beam, a handheld, pocket-sized vaporizer that uses a class-1 laser you tin really spot to vigor weed extracts. I thought for definite it was a gimmick. Turns out, it’s alternatively ingenious for a first-generation product.

Let’s commencement with the basic. From the extracurricular the Beam doesn’t look overmuch antithetic from different handheld vaporizers. It has a achromatic metallic assemblage that measures, 4 x 2 x 1 inches and weighs 7 ounces. It disappeared into the beforehand pouch of my (fairly skinny) jeans without issue. If you popular retired the bottommost compartment you’ll spot a small cylinder cartridge successful a holder, and that’s wherever you enactment your goodies. It’s a modular strategy truthful you tin swap successful thicker concentrates oregon thinner oils (more connected that successful a minute). The instrumentality has conscionable 1 fastener for turning it on/off, adjusting temperature, and firing the eponymous beam. On the different broadside is simply a solid model wherever you tin really spot the bluish laser beam streak done the vapor-filled chamber, and yes, it is precise chill looking.

But let’s backmost up here: Why a laser, speech from looking wholly bitchin’, man? There’s really a functional crushed for it. Most ore vaporizers (including each the disposable pens and such) usage metallic wires oregon coils to vigor up the oil. This tin origin a fig of issues, including metallic residue and corrosion, uneven heating (and burning), terpene (the compounds successful your weed that gives it its spirit and immoderate psychoactive effects) breakdown, and a notorious and unpleasant metallic taste. This cartridge strategy doesn’t person immoderate metallic successful it (which besides means nary e-waste). It’s conscionable axenic airy hitting your merchandise of prime against a achromatic ceramic tile. The effect is you get unadulterated flavor, adjacent heating, and precise creaseless vapor (especially astatine the little temperatures).

Opening the container is astatine archetypal a small overwhelming due to the fact that it’s beauteous packed with accessories. There’s a metallic instrumentality for loading and stirring, a silicone sleeve happening (that I aboriginal learned is to clasp the metallic tool), immoderate cleaning tools, 1 cartridge for oils (of the runnier variety), 1 other cartridge for concentrates (of the stickier variety), instructions, and a USB charging cable. The vaporizer itself has 1 cartridge already successful it. You going to privation to work those instructions, due to the fact that the worst happening I tin accidental astir this instrumentality is that it isn’t precise intuitive to use. As I was going done it I recovered myself feeling precise grateful that I was sober, but erstwhile you get the bent of it, it’s really beauteous easy.

For the concentrates cartridge, usage the small metallic instrumentality to scoop up immoderate thicker ore astir the size of a atom of rice. Then you play your ain small crippled of Operation to effort and get that goop down onto the tiny achromatic ceramic sheet successful the mediate of the achromatic ceramic cartridge. It’s surely a spot fiddly. You’ll scrape the goop disconnected connected the sides of the small window, but the laser can’t truly get to it there, truthful you’ll privation to usage the pokey extremity of the instrumentality to effort and propulsion the worldly down into the small hole. Then you reinsert the cartridge into the basal sheet and acceptable it backmost into the vaporizer. The concentrates cartridge has a silicone cylinder astatine the basal of it, which is conscionable for holding much concentrate, making the full happening a spot much portable.

The lipid cartridge is simply a spot much enactment up front, but past it stays acceptable to usage for a while, much similar a vape pen. You screw the apical disconnected and load your lipid into the (food-grade) integrative cylinder astatine the bottommost (I was told this volition beryllium upgraded to borosilicate solid successful the adjacent version). This is for runnier oils, that typically travel successful a syringe, truthful loading it successful is casual enough, and it’s designed to clasp 0.95 grams of worldly (Luminary is partnering with immoderate farms to merchandise pre-filled cartridges soon). Then you screw the apical backmost connected which looks akin to the concentrates top, but has a longer “wick” that dips down into the instrumentality below. I accidental “wick” due to the fact that that’s however it functions, but it (and the achromatic sheet successful the concentrates cartridge) is really a benignant of ceramic, akin the vigor tiles connected spacecraft, which nets this happening 2 other cool-points.

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Once your cartridge of prime is loaded, with the instrumentality turned off, you clasp down the powerfulness fastener to rhythm done the antithetic powerfulness levels. It starts connected white, which is the hottest astatine astir 400 degrees. Then it cycles down to greenish (lowest power), past bluish (medium power). Again, this isn’t intuitive, but it’s good erstwhile you get the bent of it. For the adjacent version, I’d urge it commencement astatine green/low and spell up from determination alternatively than starting astatine the top. Once your power-level is set, you property the fastener 3 times rapidly, and the instrumentality buzzes to fto you cognize it’s powered-on and ready. Then you conscionable clasp down the button, and inhales arsenic the beam blasts into your substance of prime for arsenic agelong arsenic you clasp it down.

One of the benefits of the laser strategy is that it’s instantly on. Other handheld vapes (like the excellent DaVinci ICQ) tin instrumentality up to a infinitesimal for their small ovens to vigor up. A laser is either connected oregon off. It tin instrumentality a fewer puffs earlier the goop melts onto the achromatic sheet and it truly gets going, though, particularly the lipid cartridge, but erstwhile it’s going it’s astir arsenic accelerated arsenic an instant-inhale vape pen. The solid enclosure glows blue, and if you stroke a small of the vapor backmost into the mouthpiece, the laser shows up agleam and clear, which has immoderate existent wow-factor.

And what’s the verdict connected however it works?

Oh my goodness it’s tasty and smooth. For the lipid cartridge I utilized immoderate reasonably liquidy unrecorded resin from Jetty Extracts, and I recovered that the debased mounting was incredible. It tasted delicious, astir similar caller flower, and I truly felt similar I was getting each those subtle small terpenes successful there. It besides deed truthful smoothly that I wasn’t definite if I was getting thing until I exhaled, and a large unreality came out. I besides tried it astatine the mean powerfulness level, which produced a thicker cloud, but it was a spot much harsh and chokey for my sweet, guiltless lungs. I turned it up to achromatic (in the sanction of science) and it tasted noticeably burned. I didn’t truly bask the spirit and it made maine cough, excessively (though, successful fairness, I’m not a large smoker oregon vaper), truthful I preferred keeping it connected low.

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For the concentrates cartridge I mostly utilized immoderate much viscous unrecorded resin (upwards of 80-percent THC) from Raw Garden, which is known for making highly axenic concentrates, arsenic good arsenic immoderate Live Resin Diamonds (92 to 96-percent pure) I had lying astir from a erstwhile review. For those, the medium/blue mounting seemed to beryllium the saccharine spot. Again, the flavors were perfectly delicious, and the unreality I exhaled was unexpectedly thick, not to notation potent. The vaporizer vibrates each 2 seconds portion the laser is engaged which helps you gauge your dose. That’s smart, due to the fact that it hits truthful smoothly you mightiness precise good over-shoot your archetypal mates of times and go 1 with your surviving country furniture.

It’s recommended that you instrumentality the clip to cleanable the assorted components reasonably frequently. Most important would beryllium the solid lens that the laser shoots through. Obviously, if that gets cloudy that’s going to trim the magnitude of airy (and truthful heat) that gets to the goods. It comes with a mates foam-tipped swabs (Q-Tips aren’t recommended due to the fact that fabric fibers whitethorn artifact the lens), which you dib successful rubbing intoxicant and usage to hitch immoderate residue off. It’s besides recommended that you cleanable the cartridges and cores, besides with alcohol, each mates of weeks oregon so, depending however often you’re utilizing it.

It’s worthy noting that this is simply a first-generation merchandise (they’ve shipped the archetypal 500 to aboriginal backers, and the adjacent batch of 1,000 is successful pre-order now, shipping 4/20/2025), and arsenic specified determination are decidedly immoderate things that could beryllium improved. I already mentioned that the lipid cartridge’s reservoir volition soon beryllium glass, which is good, since the little integrative that travel successful interaction with your concentrates the better. Personally, I’d similar to spot a 2nd fastener added, truthful you’ve got a abstracted fastener for somesthesia control. More granular temp power would beryllium cool, excessively (the DaVinci mentioned supra tin beryllium adjusted successful one-degree increments).

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I’d truly similar to spot them fig retired a mode for the metallic scooping/stirring instrumentality to beryllium housed wrong the assemblage of the instrumentality itself, too. The silicone sleeve it comes with to connect the instrumentality to the extracurricular of the instrumentality adds a just magnitude of bulk, and your pockets would get precise sticky/stinky since it doesn’t screen either end. Luminary is astatine slightest successful the late-stages of processing an accessory that volition assistance alleviate immoderate of that. Currently successful late-stage prototype is simply a next-gen mentation of the concentrates cartridge called the “EverDabber.” This would enactment a spot much similar the lipid cartridge, wherever you load a larger reservoir, but erstwhile you bash you tin click a instrumentality to load the ore from the reservoir into the small enclosure that ignites. It volition dispense successful 25-milligram increments, which should assistance you show your dosage, too. This volition beryllium an optional accessory, apt launching successful the adjacent fewer months. (Luminary is moving connected a cartridge for adust herb, too, but that’s apt overmuch further out).

Those gripes aside, this happening is unexpectedly great. I wanted to marque definite that it wasn’t conscionable me, though, truthful I brought it to a enactment wherever I could trial it with 3 friends who are overmuch heavier smokers. They were loading up a precise ample bong erstwhile I interrupted them and asked if they wanted to effort the Beam. I had the lipid cartridge successful spot and the somesthesia acceptable to low, and each 3 of them perfectly loved it. They said it was delicious and brainsick smooth. All 3 said they don’t usually similar oils oregon concentrates, but this was truthful bully they each wanted to cognize however overmuch it was. When I told them that it’s $200, they each thought it was good worthy it, and I do, too.

Beyond looking chill (which it perfectly does) the laser works truly well. It heats up fast, it tastes great, and it’s precise casual connected the pharynx and lungs. I’m decidedly funny successful checking retired the EverDabber accessory, which volition marque fiddling with the metallic instrumentality a less-frequent endeavor, and I look guardant to seeing what they navigator up for the adjacent generation, but for now, this is the smoothest portable ore vaporizer I’ve ever used. Plus, y’know… frickin’ lasers…