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Tea Infuser Design Clips On, Catches Drips
Tea is the fuel that keeps many an editor's brain ticking over here in the Giz office: I make mine with teabags, Blam loves the new Sorapot. So this new design is of more than passing interest: student Paul Sukphisit has reinvented the tea infuser. And it actually looks like he's really "built a better mousetrap" with his idea, since it cures some of the ills of normal infusers. More »
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All the knowledge about freshly drawn, freshly boiled water making the best cup of tea won't help you if you're as absentminded as me. Four times out of five, I forget all about the tea bag and leave it dangling in the water until the liquid is as dark as the inside of a cat, and just about as tasty. Which is where the TeaCube by Jieun Yang and Hanah Suh would come in handy—its timed retracting spool fishes out a clipped-in tea bag for you at exactly the right moment. Simplicity itself. Combine it with the self-stirring cup, and tea-making couldn't be easier. It's just a design concept, but tea addicts like me would love for someone to really produce it. Please? [Yanko design]
TeaCube Auto-Undangles Tea Bags for Perfect Cuppas
All the knowledge about freshly drawn, freshly boiled water making the best cup of tea won't help you if you're as absentminded as me. Four times out of five, I forget all about the tea bag and leave it dangling in the water until the liquid is as dark as the inside of a cat, and just about as tasty. Which is where the TeaCube by Jieun Yang and Hanah Suh would come in handy—its timed retracting spool fishes out a clipped-in tea bag for you at exactly the right moment. Simplicity itself. Combine it with the self-stirring cup, and tea-making couldn't be easier. It's just a design concept, but tea addicts like me would love for someone to really produce it. Please? [Yanko design]
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Lightning Review: Beautiful Sorapot Tea Kettle
The Gadget: I'm not a big tea drinker, but I appreciate the Sorapot tea pot's design. It's been an object of desire since I first saw the renderings and the how to video. More »
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In GizmodoWorld, no one loves a cuppa quite like I do—although the amount of times I go to the kettle each day is giving me RSI. Anyways, two French guys have designed a cup of tea that stirs itself. Simple in its design, all you need do for it to work is channel your inner Cognac-drinker, swilling the liquid around the cup until the sugar has disolved. More info, including a How-To cartoon is after the jump.
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Self-Stirring Cup of Tea Puts My Left Hand Out of a Job
In GizmodoWorld, no one loves a cuppa quite like I do—although the amount of times I go to the kettle each day is giving me RSI. Anyways, two French guys have designed a cup of tea that stirs itself. Simple in its design, all you need do for it to work is channel your inner Cognac-drinker, swilling the liquid around the cup until the sugar has disolved. More info, including a How-To cartoon is after the jump.
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Mug! For! Aggressive! Caffeine! Addicts!
This Mug! is a mix between coffee mug and a knuckleduster. Comes in two models: Big Mug for guys, decorated with gore, and Girlie Mug, decorated with butterflies. Knowing my wife's tea addiction and her sweet charming character, her Girlie Mug will probably end up looking like the Big Mug, but with real blood. [Mug!]
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Does the ability to heat eight ounces of water in three seconds interest you? Then take a look at this Teal quick Cup, which produces hot (we're not sure if it's near boiling) water by spinning the cold water you pour in around the spiral heating element. Not only is it fast, it's supposedly more efficient than a standard kettle or hot water heater because it only needs to be "on" for those three-ish seconds. Useful for your instant cups of tea or filling up a bathtub the dumb way. [Quickcup via Giz Mag via Boing Boing Gadgets]
Tefal Quick Cup Boils Water Faster Than You Can Read This Abnormally Long Headline That We Are Stretching Out OK Done
Does the ability to heat eight ounces of water in three seconds interest you? Then take a look at this Teal quick Cup, which produces hot (we're not sure if it's near boiling) water by spinning the cold water you pour in around the spiral heating element. Not only is it fast, it's supposedly more efficient than a standard kettle or hot water heater because it only needs to be "on" for those three-ish seconds. Useful for your instant cups of tea or filling up a bathtub the dumb way. [Quickcup via Giz Mag via Boing Boing Gadgets]
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Sorapot Teapot, Video of the Sexy Steeper in Action
Here's video of that sexy Sorapot teapot by designer Joey Roth we showed you last month, available for pre-order for a $50 deposit. As you can see, this is a teapot that steeps the tea in style—but you must heat up the water elsewhere. While the years-in-development object isn't available just yet, it's gone beyond the design concept stage, and it looks like at least there's a working prototype now. Roth says it'll soon be available in a limited run of 300. Tea connoisseurs, what do you think? [Sorapot]
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All right you potheads, knock it off. This is not a special one-hit toker. No, it's the Tea Stick, a spring-loaded doodad that lets you place loose tea on its little retractable shelf, and then you stir it into some nice hot water, resulting in a tea connoisseur's nirvana. The stainless steel and plastic implement, formerly only dreamed about as a design concept, is now available for $20. Say goodbye to those old tea bags, and indulge yourself with all the other tea snobs, using that precious loose tea that will take you to another place. Or something. If that doesn't do it for you, you can just put your weed in it. [Chiasso, via Crave]
Tea Stick Stirs Heaven Into Your Cup
All right you potheads, knock it off. This is not a special one-hit toker. No, it's the Tea Stick, a spring-loaded doodad that lets you place loose tea on its little retractable shelf, and then you stir it into some nice hot water, resulting in a tea connoisseur's nirvana. The stainless steel and plastic implement, formerly only dreamed about as a design concept, is now available for $20. Say goodbye to those old tea bags, and indulge yourself with all the other tea snobs, using that precious loose tea that will take you to another place. Or something. If that doesn't do it for you, you can just put your weed in it. [Chiasso, via Crave]
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Some tea connoisseurs are calling the Sorapot the "sexiest teapot ever," but we just think it's downright architectural. There's function behind that form, too, where the arched handle is supposed to act as a heat sink to keep the tea from oversteeping. All this stainless steel and glass and design overload isn't quite available yet, but when/if it is, we tea drinkers at the Giz are even willing to forsake our gorgeous Michael Graves teapot from Target for one of these. [Snarfd]
UPDATE: For a $50 deposit, the Sorapot Teapot is now available for pre-order on designer Joey Roth's website.
Sorapot Teapot is Sexy, Architectural
Some tea connoisseurs are calling the Sorapot the "sexiest teapot ever," but we just think it's downright architectural. There's function behind that form, too, where the arched handle is supposed to act as a heat sink to keep the tea from oversteeping. All this stainless steel and glass and design overload isn't quite available yet, but when/if it is, we tea drinkers at the Giz are even willing to forsake our gorgeous Michael Graves teapot from Target for one of these. [Snarfd] UPDATE: For a $50 deposit, the Sorapot Teapot is now available for pre-order on designer Joey Roth's website.
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Being as into tea as the British folks this Kenwood Response Kettle was made for, we're definitely looking forward to marveling at its color-changing capabilities. Not only is it a container to keep water from spilling all over the place while you heat it, the exterior actually shifts from blue (cool) to red (hot) while it's being heated. Plus, it also has the option for shutting down when it gets to 80 degrees, which is supposedly the perfect temperature for coffee and herbal tea. Only available in the UK for now. [KenwoodWorld via ChipChick via Apartment Therapy via PopGadget]
Kenwood Response Kettle Changes Color As it Heats
Being as into tea as the British folks this Kenwood Response Kettle was made for, we're definitely looking forward to marveling at its color-changing capabilities. Not only is it a container to keep water from spilling all over the place while you heat it, the exterior actually shifts from blue (cool) to red (hot) while it's being heated. Plus, it also has the option for shutting down when it gets to 80 degrees, which is supposedly the perfect temperature for coffee and herbal tea. Only available in the UK for now. [KenwoodWorld via ChipChick via Apartment Therapy via PopGadget]
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Enjoying toast and tea is a luxury for us bloggers, who often dine on flat, room temperature soda and animal crackers in order to save money for heat, power and a 103-inch TV. Nevertheless, if we did enjoy her Majesty's official libations, it would be with this Toaster Teapot that combines the two. Whether it's a good idea to have liquid INSIDE A TOASTER is a question for philosophers and coroners, but it's only £29.95 ($58), so at least it's a cheap death. [Teapottery via Retro To Go via Uber Review]
All-in-One Breakfast With the Toaster Teapot
Enjoying toast and tea is a luxury for us bloggers, who often dine on flat, room temperature soda and animal crackers in order to save money for heat, power and a 103-inch TV. Nevertheless, if we did enjoy her Majesty's official libations, it would be with this Toaster Teapot that combines the two. Whether it's a good idea to have liquid INSIDE A TOASTER is a question for philosophers and coroners, but it's only £29.95 ($58), so at least it's a cheap death. [Teapottery via Retro To Go via Uber Review]
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Ladies, are you self-conscious about your breasts? Do you think they need to be bigger to get you attention from guys—or at least from guys like Adam Frucci? Well, you could have expensive and gross really awesome breast implant surgery, or you could just grab some F Cup tea from Japan. These sure-to-be-effective tea bags apparently make your breasts bigger when you drink a cup each day, while those cookies will just make the area below your boobs bigger. Big difference. Plus, who wants to chew when you can just swallow? [Tokyo Times via Tokyo Mango]
F Cup Tea Promises That Their Herbs Will Go Straight to Your Boobs
Ladies, are you self-conscious about your breasts? Do you think they need to be bigger to get you attention from guys—or at least from guys like Adam Frucci? Well, you could have expensive and
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Sick of your fellow workers constantly screwing up your morning tea or coffee? Suck UK has come up with the solution (and it's not a kick up the arse). A pantone-style mug, which shows all the shades of tea, from Milky to Builders'. There's a coffee version too. More images after the jump.
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Pantone Mug Helps you Make the Perfect Brew
Sick of your fellow workers constantly screwing up your morning tea or coffee? Suck UK has come up with the solution (and it's not a kick up the arse). A pantone-style mug, which shows all the shades of tea, from Milky to Builders'. There's a coffee version too. More images after the jump.
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Although the automated drink makers we've visited are mostly of the coffee variety, this Zarafina Tea Maker suite has the same idea. There are variable settings to control strength, brewing time, type of tea, temperature and adjust for tea bags/loose tea. Kitchen Contraptions tested it out and and found it to be consistent in all its brews, and produced tea that tasted fantastic even to tea-only drinkers. Grab one for the fairly reasonable price of $149. [Amazon via Kitchen Contraptions]
Zarafina Tea Maker Reviewed (Verdict: No More Teabagging)
Although the automated drink makers we've visited are mostly of the coffee variety, this Zarafina Tea Maker suite has the same idea. There are variable settings to control strength, brewing time, type of tea, temperature and adjust for tea bags/loose tea. Kitchen Contraptions tested it out and and found it to be consistent in all its brews, and produced tea that tasted fantastic even to tea-only drinkers. Grab one for the fairly reasonable price of $149. [Amazon via Kitchen Contraptions]
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Japan's Makes Maid Robot That Surprisingly Looks like Gundam, Not a Sexy Lady
If you imagined Japan's roboticists making a robot that pours tea and washes dishes, you'd imagine some kind of sexy maid with a short skirt and gigantic knockers. Well, you'd be wrong. The University of Tokyo went in the complete opposite direction and made a robot that looks like a Gundam. More »
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Hopefully you didn't get too excited about our recent post about Enviga, the Coca-Cola Company green tea that apparently claims to burn more calories than it contains. Our Consumerist pals are the ones with the whole truth, and they found that the research behind this claim is bogus. Studying the fine print, they discovered the study only had 32 people participating, and all were of normal weight. Plus, the results showed no difference in fat burning between the ones who drank this swill and those who drank up a placebo version of it.
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Enviga Fat Burning Tea: Snake Oil Scam, Just as You Predicted
Hopefully you didn't get too excited about our recent post about Enviga, the Coca-Cola Company green tea that apparently claims to burn more calories than it contains. Our Consumerist pals are the ones with the whole truth, and they found that the research behind this claim is bogus. Studying the fine print, they discovered the study only had 32 people participating, and all were of normal weight. Plus, the results showed no difference in fat burning between the ones who drank this swill and those who drank up a placebo version of it.
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