Yes it has a push down buton, and it heats up in 6-8 seconds on cold start and cools down in about 3-4 minutes. It was designed for smokers and medical smokers that have trouble using regular methods due to medical conditions, or people who just want to eliminate butane from their medicating process. It is substantially less expensive than the Phedor at $69.99-$79.99 vs. $159.99. or a Hakko soldering irons at $39.99 and up. One big issue I had before I developed the Herb-Iron was that I would forget to unplug my soldering iron. Very dangerous. Same goes for the Phedor. I also got very very poor customer service when me and my buddies phedor broke after only 3 months, which also inspired me to include a lifetime warranty. If it ever burns out, just send it back with the original invoice and we will exchange it, no BS or questions. Even though we designed the Herb-Iron like a tank, if you ever drop the Herb-Iron and break the ceramic tip off, just send it back with the original sales invoice and I will exchange it ONCE, at our discression. I aim to treat my customers the way I would like to be treated, and the products we design are not meant to last.
Just youtube "Herb-Iron" and you will see how it works.
I am a 25 year old entrepenuer fresh out of college that felt there was a need for a certain smoking product. So, I decided to take a risk and do somthing about it. I have an original account called 619SixFour with a couple of grow journals. After reading in the "Vaporizing with a Soldering Iron" thread, I realized that there are more and more people using this great hybrid smoking/vaporizing method instead of butane lighters and full on vaporizers. You can smoke/vaporize out of your favorite glass peice. 
I started by using a plain ceramic tipped soldering in order to replace butane lighters. After a day or two of only using the iron, I could taste the difference between smoking with a lighter, to smoking/vaporizing with a ceramic iron. Wow! What a difference I promise you! After a year of only using the iron, it still had issues that I didn't like. For one, I had to unplug it evertime and if I happen to forget, (which I did several times) I risked burning down my house. The soldering iron is always on during the session so burns are very common. I had enough, I hit the sketch pad with some ideas of what I thought would be a good design.
Thanks for the kind words.
