The Puffco Peak Pro is a sexy, portable electronic dab rig, that gives you solid and consistent performance with no learning curve whatsoever. For anyone who has a big budget and wants a very easy-to-use concentrate vaporizer, this one perfectly fits the bill. On top of that, the Peak Pro also has an app that allows for a huge level of customization, perfect for experienced users and adventurous newbies alike.

Puffco have upgraded almost everything on this year's model compared to last one, for example, they added wireless and USB charging, and they even improved the case. They have however switched to a closed system atomizer, which makes it a lot less customizable, so if you were a fan of that aspect of the last model you might want to reconsider upgrading. They also still haven’t included an auto shutoff feature, which I’ll complain about until they finally do.

The Arizer Solo 2 is one of my most used portable session vaporizers, but it’s definitely one that I prefer to run through water, as your throat will get warm with longer session style use. The Bubblemax is perfect for this task, it’s a very portable water piece, but still manages to deliver desktop level water cooling for your vapor. Whenever I take my Solo 2 or Air 2 on the road, this is the water piece that goes with it.

The Hippie Pipe has a really cool concept, but they blew it on the execution. It’s definitely possible to get a good hit from this vaporizer, but the temperature indicator strip just isn’t very practical and makes it difficult. You really have to go by timing and feel to get decent hits with any sort of consistency, rather than relying on the indicator strip as the manufacturer intended.

I really like the spring loading design, and it’s cool to have a visual temperature indicator on a butane powered vaporizer like this, but they need to take this vape back to the drawing board and make the strip much more responsive to both the heating up and the cooling down.

Much more detailed instructions on how exactly you should heat it would be hugely beneficial, as it’s way too much work for a casual user to figure it out for themself.

The Tinymight gives you on-demand performance with true convection vapor, and not only is it some of the tastiest vapor I’ve had this year, but it also spits it out with ease and no technique required. This is truly one of those vaporizers that simply require you to inhale when it vibrates, and you’ll be rewarded with some of the best convection flavor you are going to find. It also produces vapor in abundance, with immediate and strong effects. It has that rich, 510 mod type of vapor creation, but in a handheld, super easy-to-use unit. If you like flavor, heavy hitters, or strong effects, this may be a good vape for you.

When I first saw the Vapbong I had no idea what I was even looking at, it’s a very unique entry to this space. The Vapbong is a handmade ceramic vaporizer that combines a vaporizer and a water piece into one device. It also comes in a huge variety of different looks and shapes.

The Vapbong takes around 10 minutes to heat up, but when it’s running you can leave it on all day long. Once this thing is at temperature, it retains a tremendous amount of heat in the large heater, which gives you full convection vapor in absolutely crazy quantities. Thanks to that massive heater, you can hit this one really slowly, or you can hit it as fast as you can, and you’ll still get crazy results. I've never had a vaporizer fill my lungs like this one.

One of the reasons I love this vape is that even though it has a powerful heater, it is also very accurate. My ABV is consistently light green, if I hit it four times in a row it doesn’t produce vapor after a certain point, but it also doesn’t keep making the herb darker, which you don’t often see.

They did an amazing job with this vape and it’s without a doubt, one of the heaviest, if not the heaviest, hitter in my collection, as well as one of my most used.

This is always a difficult category to pick a winner for, I went back-and-forth between a few units this year before finally landing on the TinyMight. The reason I chose this vaporizer is that I really need desktop-level power and performance, but ideally without a cord. This is one of the very few portables I have ever used that could completely fulfill all of my vaping needs, so this year the product of the year goes to the Tinymight.

Make no mistake, this is a desktop caliber vaporizer in a portable package. You get on-demand convection vapor, really simple and straightforward operation, and massive terpy tokes that will floor you. It uses a very common and replaceable 18650 battery, and it’s really low maintenance, the only thing you’ll need to clean is the glass stem.

If they didn’t have production challenges they would have sold a metric ton of these. It’s a very rare type of vape, as very few portable vaporizers can provide this kind of performance.