Coffee? PHLEUGH. I drink tea. I drink it because it’s delicious and healthy. I drink it because it’s cheap, diverse, and doesn’t make my breath stink. But this überdrink has a secret. Tea, you see, is not as it seems.
You can almost taste the epiphany moment the designer of the TeaSub tea infuser must have had to create such a random gadget: “You dunk your teabag underwater… You know what else goes underwater? Submarines!” Although it wouldn’t be too surprising to discover that there were some pretty crazy drugs on the table when the idea was born.
Like an Easy Bake Oven, this tea kettle concept uses a 100W light bulb to heat its contents. Albeit inefficient, its designer claims it can heat to the near boiling temperature of 90°C, which is perfect for tea. [Dezeen]
A couple of guys in their early 20s came up with a product intended for arthritis sufferers, but instead have managed to excite a lot more people in the process. Yes, tea drinkers can get excited too, especially by a mug/kettle mash-up.
In the town where I was born, lived a man who drank a lot of tea, and he told us of his life, in the land of tea-infusing submarines.
