When I was a young boy I was fascinated with spy movies such as James Bond and even the spoof show , Get Smart . What attracted me , and still does were the gadgets that the spies used . As it turns out , a lot of those gadgets weren ' t too far fetched from what real spies use . I remember on many shows they would all wear a watch that had hidden functions like shooting a poison dart or it would be a gun disguised as a watch and you ' d see smoke coming out of it . I never thought that I would actually own something that is exactly like the gadgets used in those movies .
A few years back on an overseas television show I saw a well known magician produce smoke from his hands . It was done in such a way that I had no idea where the smoke came from . That one moment really stuck with me and I ' ve never forgotten the impact it had on that one effect . It was a few years later that I found out the creator of that effect was Will Tsai , and that was done prior to when VAPR came out .
Recently I was able to sit down with Will and get a first hand look and use the latest release from Will and his team called VAPR WATCH . I say latest but in truth , this has been in the design and production stage for many years and was actually pitched to Murphy ' s Magic Supplies when the original Vapr was officially launched to the market .
The back story is what fascinates me about this product and the stages of development it has gone through . The idea of producing smoke from a watch is something Will has been doing for many
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WHEN WE FIRST HOPPED ON THE PROJECT , WE WEREN ’ T EXPECTING THIS TO BE A MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT . OVER THE COURSE OF 4 YEARS , WE ’ VE PUT EVERYTHING WE COULD AFFORD INTO
DEVELOPING THE TECHNOLOGY REQUIRED TO MAKE VAPR WATCH HAPPEN ."
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