Yep! The heating coil voltage should only start ramping up when the user is inhaling, and how do you detect that they're inhaling?

With a friggin microphone! The negative air pulls the drum up and that's enough to send a signal to the MCU

You can see some examples here

You don't know what you're missing.

Boss makes a dollar, you make a dime. Lick that salt on company time!

Probably not, but it’s admittedly odd to verify that a home furnishing is obviously also a lump of seasoning.

It's pretty salty but I think it's worth the risk.

Would recommend finding a spot to gradually erode away with repeated licking

Do that while holding eye contact with said higher up

It is just rock salt. And possibly dust gathered on top of it.

As safe as any other form of salt. If you consume enough of it then it could raise your blood pressure

IDK, tasted like salt.

And it can be problematic on a few levels, for one it is toxic to cats and some of them want to lick it, it can also collect humidity from the air and drip it over your desk and power cords (hmm, spicy salty water).

Combine those and you have the perfect mass-market object for white people to become obsessed with.

I concur. I am white and i'm obsessed with Himalayan salt lamps.

Also, they give a nice soft warm glow when lit from within

I do love pink things

Ya gotta keep upping the ante till they break. That's the game.

Popped the soda cap top and put the little black lid back on that hides it. My sister and I shared a room and she needed the lamp to sleep so I had it turned on and I think that's what made it overflow over night. The next morning, I was looking around for the source of this goo all over my console and the lava lamp was sitting on a shelf above the TV,

I checked for cracks and then splashed the whole thing when I picked it up and saw the cap sitting on the shelf right next to the lamp. I wish they had just said and I wouldn't have turned it on that night. I was a poor kid and me having that console was a big deal at the time. My uncle won it at a poker game and we couldn't afford to replace it. It was the nicest thing I owned at that time and owned for a while.

I never found out who did it. I'm grown now and got a PS1 for old times sake to emotionally right that childhood wound so I guess it all turned out okay in the end.

Tajin makes everything better!

Now I want tajin watermelon. Speaking of which, if you’ve never tried putting salt on watermelon, it’s delicious. Somehow brings out the sweetness and juiciness.

One claim is it adds negative ions to the air which the claim is are good for you. There's no evidence they'd release anything more than an infinitesimal amount. Salt is pretty stable.

Another claim is it helps purify the air by trapping toxins, which, even if true, would quickly become useless as the surface area becomes saturated. There's also no evidence any pollutants end up on the lamp beyond pure coincidence/chance.

The heat makes the lamp atoms vibrate at a higher frequency, which in turn makes it deteriorate. To maintain its structure the lamp seeks out emotions vibrating at other frequencies to pull within itself. Drawing these "Bad Vibes" into the lamp is what makes it salty, and a naturally gifted or properly trained Empath can taste this salt to see what has been absorbed by the lamp, to gain knowledge of the owner's troubles.

Oh you're serious.