The Tea Stick. Basically it's a (hideously overpriced) single cup tea infuser. It does look nice, although I'll be sticking with my travel cup/plunger.
62 words in the feature list. Including "ultimate", "intuitive", "functionality", "aesthetic", "traditional", "durable", "stainless", "finest", "optimum", "perfect", "nicely", "ideal", "perfect".
Once you remove the superlatives and the web design you're basically left with a bit of metal with holes in it ... indeed, the traditional way to make tea from loose leaves in a single cup.
I particularly like "Durable enough for industrial use". I'm not quite sure what industrial use a single cups of tea has (excluding devices from the brain of Douglas Adams).
Yeah, I also considered that point. I eventually decided they might mean "use with very high frequency", e.g. in a café where you might serve a large number of cups of tea each day all accompanied by a mighty TeaStick.
I'd think it was cool if I saw it at a café - I just hope they didn't manage to convince anyone it was worth a patent.
That was the only explination I could come up with, although personally I'd have used the word "commercial" before I used "industrial".
I'd be moderately surprised if they didn't have a patent (after all, just about everything has a patent nowadays). Given the amount of prior art, it would (hopefully) have to be a very specific one.
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Once you remove the superlatives and the web design you're basically left with a bit of metal with holes in it ... indeed, the traditional way to make tea from loose leaves in a single cup.
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I'd think it was cool if I saw it at a café - I just hope they didn't manage to convince anyone it was worth a patent.
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I'd be moderately surprised if they didn't have a patent (after all, just about everything has a patent nowadays). Given the amount of prior art, it would (hopefully) have to be a very specific one.
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