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There Is A US President In My Tea Cup
6:00PM Jesus Diaz | Here’s one of those simple, zowielala inventions that will make some people smile. The ones who matter, anyway: Those who love tea. And tea parties. With rainbow cookies and carrot cake. And jacuzzis too. And famous people in their cups. More »
Design
Space Invaders Tea Best Served With Side Of MIDI After Dinner Music
6:30AM Jack Loftus | This ingenious tea pot and serving pitcher not only features classic Space Invaders, it’s completely functional as well. When the water is hot, the blue invaders appear, letting you know it’s ready for service. More »
Design
Tea Bag Lighting Concept is Absolutely Tea-lightful
4:03PM Elaine Chow | Korean designer Wonsik Chae’s light concept is in the shape of a teabag filled with fluorescent molecules that react to chemicals in a teacup. The result: a new meaning to the words “tea light.” More »
Science
Three Cups of Coffee Makes You Three Times More Likely to Hallucinate
2:20AM Mark Wilson | Maybe you aren’t at work right now. Maybe you aren’t wearing a suit. Maybe that giant polka dot bunny can’t hear your thoughts. Maybe you just drank too much coffee. More »
Gadgets
UFO Teapot: Let’s Make Some F’ing Tea
12:45AM Mark Wilson | For some reason, a teapot permanently takes up one of the four, sacred burners in my kitchen. Occasionally I’m able to hide it, trapping the unused fixture in a cabinet where the Pyrex watches guard. To circumvent this subtle, strategically culinary mating dance that is marriage, I’d be glad to place this adolescently glorious UFO teapot in a spot of household prominence all year long. Forget the stove. I’m thinking the $US80 UFO sits on a pedestal in the middle of my living room—where it partially blocks the TV, commanding your full attention at all times, of course. [Andy Titcomb via Nerd Approved] More »
Gadgets
Steampunk Tea Pots Are Very Rust-Tea
8:00AM Jason Chen | Apologies to reader Miguel for taking his fantastic creations and shoving a lousy pun on it, but it was either that or “sTEAmpunk”. These Steampunk Tea Pots are really, really amazing, and they’re all hand-made and unglazed coloured clay pots perfect for putting your morning tea into. Mr. T would approve. More »
Design
Tea Infuser Design Clips On, Catches Drips
8:05PM Gizmodo US Edition | 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 »
Design
TeaCube Auto-Undangles Tea Bags for Perfect Cuppas
1:20AM Gizmodo US Edition | 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] More »
Gadgets
Lightning Review: Beautiful Sorapot Tea Kettle
9:22AM Brian Lam | 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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