This disposable vape just became a "smokin' fast" web server

Editor's take: Vapes aren't what they were a few years ago. Some now sport screens ranging from the basic – displaying charge and approximate puffs left – to elaborate LEDs showing brand logos with colorful RGB light shows. One scrap modder has shown that these tiny disposable computers can have a second life with some creative engineering.

In what might be the nerdiest twist on vaping yet, an engineer has turned a disposable vape into a fully functional web server. That's right: a device running on just 24 KB of flash and 3 KB of RAM – usually meant to track how many puffs are left – can now host a webpage. For context, that's not enough memory to store a single high-resolution selfie, yet somehow it can serve the very blog post describing it.

The mastermind behind this "vape-to-website" hack, Bogdan Ionescu, spent years collecting discarded vapes from friends ...