About

Pod & Coil is an engineering desk for vape hardware. We read pods, coils and devices the way a good small-appliance reviewer reads a kettle: materials and tolerances, airflow paths, wicking behaviour, charging circuitry, and how a thing fails after a month rather than on day one. Hardware here is used with nicotine-containing e-liquid, and the audience is adults of legal purchase age.

Who writes here

The site is edited by Kirsty Malin, a disclosed house pen name maintained by our editorial team — the Economist model, stated openly rather than hidden. Reviews run under the editor's byline; news runs under “Staff, Pod & Coil.” We publish no fabricated author biographies and claim no credentials we do not have — see the editorial policy for how the bylines work.

How this site is funded

Pod & Coil is an independent, commercially supported publication. We may earn affiliate or advertising revenue from links on the site. That revenue never dictates our conclusions: scores, pros and cons are editorial judgments, sponsored material is always disclosed with the post, and no verdict can be bought. Commercial enquiries go through the advertise page.

Who this is for

We write for adult vapers who care how a device is built and how it fails.

How we work

Specifications come from manufacturer documentation and are labelled as such. Where we describe behaviour, we describe it as observed rather than as measured, because we do not run instrumented bench tests and will not pretend otherwise. We never publish modifications that defeat a safety feature or a regulatory limit, and battery safety gets stated wherever external cells are involved.

Corrections

If we have published an error — a figure, a date, a term, anything — we want to know. Reach the editorial desk via the contact page. Corrections are the fastest queue we run, and material ones are noted in the post.