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Gudtrip: the AI agent vape pen with blockchain by David Gerard
Wednesday April 22^nd, 2026 at 10:58 AM

Pivot to AI

Gudtrip is, get this: [Gudtrip]

Not just a vape. A connected earning device. Gudtrip combines premium cannabis, blockchain rewards, and AI-powered asset tools in one product.

They somehow didn’t get quantum in there. You’d think we were in a bubble.

If you’re a tech bro, then people just casually smoking their weed when they feel like it has one critical problem — how do you monetise this as a gatekeeper charging a rent?

The Gudtrip app turns every device into an active part of the network. Connect your vape, track activity, receive rewards, and choose how those rewards work for you.

Your rewards are tiny amounts of bitcoin and also Gudtrip’s own crypto token, VAPE — which doesn’t seem to be traded anywhere.

Gudtrip turns smoking weed into a mobile game.

Gudtrip is the latest from Puffpaw, who started out in 2024 gamifying ordinary nicotine vapes — but on the blockchain: [Puffpaw]

Get Paid in Crypto to Quit Nicotine

As you reduce your vaping, you get more cryptos! Anyone joining Puffpaw would start off vaping as much as possible, then slowly reduce how much they vape on the Puffpaw device to get more cryptos. And also use a separate vape. [Protos, 2024]

Puffpaw pivoted to cannabis. Gudtrip does not pretend to reduce your consumption. They launched Gudtrip in October 2025 with a straightforward message: [Twitter, archive]

Smoke weed and earn @Bitcoin

So … where’s the AI in Gudtrip?

Gudtrip’s AI agents are designed to help users deploy eligible rewards across selected opportunities such as DeFi (Decentralized Finance), network incentives, prediction markets, and certain RWA (Real World Asset)-based strategies.

The AI can tell you how to lose money playing the cryptos! That’s it.

Puffpaw got an advertising media agency, Arton Media in Toronto. Arton put the campaign up as a portfolio piece: [Arton]

The goal was to introduce the brand through a consistent system of CGI and AI-based visuals.

Each piece expanded on the idea of technology as an extension of reality — blending the physical and the digital into one visual language.

The result is a clean, future-oriented identity that feels modern, scalable, and true to the brand’s vision.

What that means is Arton made a bunch of AI images and CGI videos in the glossy ad-agency version of a cyberpunk style.

Even crypto Twitter thought this was the scammiest idea they’d seen in a day, and they’ve seen one or two.

Don’t do drugs, kids. You might end up like these guys.

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Bang & Olufsen Brings the Outdoors Inside at Milan Design Week by Adrian Madlener
Wednesday April 22^nd, 2026 at 10:57 AM

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Milan Design Week is particularly good for one thing: holistically imagined installations that when conceived well demonstrate the potential use of new products. Where these go wrong is in simply mounting loosely defined, marketing ploy, stylized backdrops for an endless onslaught of replicative social media moments.

Falling squarely in the first category are Danish electronics producer Bang & Olufsen (B&O) and Italian premium stone purveyor Antolini. The seemingly disparate yet complimentary brands have joined forces to mount a fully sensorial Milan Design Week installation playing up the opportune coherence of immaterial sound with emphatically material stone, presented in a recreated natural setting brought indoors: Antolini’s centrally located Duomo Stoneroom.

The fully sensorial showcase demonstrates both brand’s capacity, with new and refreshed product ranges cleverly paired together—more explicitly suggesting potential applications. B&O’s new Beosound Haven outdoor speaker anchors on and cuts through slabs of Antolini’s mat-finish Taj Mahal quartzite.

Surrounding these totemic combines are tastefully manicured zen gardens; a contextualized, if slightly fantastical evocation of where both device and material might live. At the center, there is a pool of water with a cascade of droplets falling from above.

“Design at Bang & Olufsen has always been about understanding the relationship between technology, materials, and the spaces people inhabit,” says Kresten Bjørn Krab-Bjerre, Senior Director of Design. “Through Beosound Haven – our forthcoming landscape speaker – we explore sound as an architectural language. It interacts with materials and forms atmosphere, creating a refined sense of place that is both subtle and powerful. It reflects our ambition to find new ways for sound to enrich the experience – not only as something you hear, but as something you truly feel.”

The collaboration extends to a limited run of the Beolab 18 speaker, produced using Antolini’s comprehensive range of natural stone products in matte finish: Amazonite, Retro Black Petrified Wood, Patagonia Original, Dalmata, and Cipollino Grey Wave, as well as Taj Mahal. “In collaboration with Bang & Olufsen, we have moved beyond traditional design to embrace the open air,” Carlo Alberto Antolini, owner of Antolini. “By blending the raw elegance of natural stone with precision sound, we’ve created a bridge between nature and technology. These landscape speakers are not just objects, they are a dialogue between the elements, transforming gardens and terraces into living galleries.”