Would you like to be able to swing your cup of tea around your head without splashing or spilling any? Nah, I didn't think so. But a recent article in the British press highlighted a gadget called the SpillNot, which will allow you to do exactly that. I'm not sure why you'd want to but …
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In the time I've been writing about tea I've run across my fair share of gadgets. Many of them are kind of blah and aren't really worth mentioning in these columns. But there are always plenty that stand out from the pack. I have to confess to a fondness for those high-tech, sleek looking tea …
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Let's start with the offbeat news this time around. Does it get any more offbeat than breast milk in tea? Hard to say. I'm not sure who Mylene Klass is or what her claim to fame is. But apparently she's well known enough that the British press is abuzz of her recent revelation that when …
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These reports are a forum for discussing gadgets and offbeat tea-related news, but it seems that the coverage sometimes is slanted toward the former. So I'll start things off this time around with what I thought was a decidedly offbeat bit of tea news. According to this article, it seems that black tea - in …
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I've been writing about tea gadgets at this fine site for a while now, and not so long ago I began writing a regular monthly feature on the topic - with a side of offbeat tea-related news tossed in for good measure. Yes, I do run across enough tea gadgets in a month's time to …
If I may pull out my swami hat and gaze deeply into my crystal ball, I'll forecast (educated guess) that 2013 will be a year that's going to bring us many tea gadgets. Which is hardly what you'd call a bold prediction, given the number of these clever little gizmos that regularly make their way …
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Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to pay tribute yet again to the ingenuity of tea gadget makers everywhere - with a side of offbeat tea-related news. Let's get on with it. First up, the end of the tea bag. Well, don't get too worked up about that one yet. There might be a …
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As an accident prone young feller, I was without my two front teeth for a while. But I've got that covered now, so I'll turn my attentions to a few tea-related items I might like to see under the Christmas tree. First, a few things that won't be on my list. Like those fancy high-falutin' …
If you've been to this site before, you may have noticed that we've featured quite a few editions of gadget and offbeat news reports thus far. But since it's such a frequent feature, the Esteemed Editor decided to put one together every month, and this will be the first of them. So, let's get on …
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Forget about orange juice and sunshine - a day without tea gadgets is like a day without...well, tea, and it's hard to even imagine such a horror. But, as I've said before in these occasional tea gadget reports, it seems that barely a day goes by without at least one new tea gadget calling itself …
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