As I look at the concept model I can see that there is some kind of foam insulation between the bamboo and unit. This is a great idea for where someone might blow back into the Hydratube. In fact, if the knob and button is designed with a fairly tight tolerance I could see how this might even be able to be labelled "water resistant"
Between this and the sublimator...idk what i am going to do!
agh! might as well just be happy with my SSV right now and wait till reviews get in, then ill have the dough to play with! too bad i will be in agony until then...oh well.
If I do spend the money this is my dilemma as well. I've been following the sublimator forums and I am not quite convinced I would like it even if it somehow could extract better than the cloud. I like that it can do oils in it and seems to do it best but it just does not look right to me. Even though I am a medical user I would have a hard time explaining to people what that thing is sitting on my bathroom countertop. It just makes you want to ask questions. At least the cloud looks beautiful in my bathroom and no one has ever asked me what that is. If they would I would tell them it was a toothbrush sanitation device. You turn it on, heat it up, dampen your brush with a special alcohol, and let it "sanitize" the germs away with heat. It is so convincing to tell people this that I hope they don't ask me one day where to buy one
The sublimator also looks dangerous because I have read where people have burned themselves with the tip. People can debate all day long about which one actually extracts the best or provides the cleanest hit and I don't think you will ever have a consensus. All of the "other" stuff that goes along with vaporizing matter to me too and this is where I feel the cloud is winning by a long shot. I asked the question in the sublimator forum about convenience and ease of use of the cloud vs. sublimator and did not generate enough of a discussion so I need to go back so I can better understand it but I am hard pressed to find an easier method of use and cleanup than ELB's. I think with the sublimator you have to dump load each time. Preloading ELB's and leaving the cloud running is just so convenient.
I think I am talking myself out of considering the sublimator. The sublimator has an edge on concentrates but do I care? I don't know if I do since I can use cotton in the cloud for almost as good performance and the cleanup is even easier than flowers because you just throw away a tiny bit of cotton. You just have to be careful not to let the oil drip between the ELB and cap because then it is hard to clean and separate. Doing oils is one area where I would like to see something designed that really worked well with the cloud. I can't think of anything now.
When you buy something this expensive a lot of other factors start to matter like beauty, efficiency, ease of use, durability, and how easy it is to operate. The cloud still has the edge for me unless I start to see comparison after comparison in the sublimator thread to the cloud where people rank the sublimator on top. Even then I have to ask myself if I want something that looks like it could be a Gitmo torture machine sitting on my countertop.
