This travel tea flask comes with a built-in infuser to give you the best brew without messy tea bags!

Inspired and derived from Chinese tea culture, Chá is a travel tea flask that brings the ritual of brewing tea at home back into making tea on the go.

Making your first cup of tea in the morning feels like a ritual. Like clockwork, the water boils, the flavor of tea leaves seep into your cup, and the tea is ready to be enjoyed while you curl up next to a window and read. Having tea on the go is a little different. When we make tea in stainless steel, thermal bottles, we can’t see how strong we’re making it and our tea-making rituals are always cut short. Chá is a travel tea flask that ties the ritual back into making tea on the go, born from a collaboration between Chinese EV maker Nio and UAL’s Central Saint Martins.

Chá is a travel tea bottle that can switch between a tea infuser and a regular thermal water bottle. Topped with a transparent lid, Chá allows each user to witness the seeping process while brewing tea to ensure their desired tea strength is achieved. With a handy rubber strap, users can even brew their tea with the bottle strapped to their backpack. The brewing process of Chá is just like filling a water bottle, but the lid of Chá features a compartment where users can place tea bags near a built-in infuser and transparent section that reveals the strength of each brew.

The built-in infuser opens with a turn of the bottle’s lid, then the user can turn Chá upside down and watch as their water darkens with tea. If users want to only drink water, then the infuser can be just as easily closed and Chá can be filled with fresh water to be used as a regular water bottle. Ergonomic and inviting by design, Chá combines style with the traditional ritual of tea making.

Explaining the brewing process, the designers behind Chá describe, “Twisting the two halves of the opaque lid against one another to form an ‘O’ or a horizontal ‘S’, opens or closes the infuser respectively. An open infuser allows the contents of its flask to infuse with each other. Enabling the infuser and flipping the flask upside down exposes the water to the tea leaves for infusion while the user can monitor for their desired thickness of the tea through the transparent lid.”

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By twisting the lid’s two halves, users activate the infuser. 

Silicone elements provide some grip for Chá’s bottle.

A handy strap allows users to hold Chá in a variety of ways, like strapping it to a backpack. 

Following several ideations, the final form of Chá envisions a subdued, yet bright blush pink stainless steel bottle with silicone elements and a transparent upper lid.  

Bring and make tea on the go with Chá.

Simplici-tea

The tea brewing process is pretty straightforward, so it simply wouldn’t be right to expect that some wildly innovative solution to roll along. I mean, why mess up a good thing? That being said, this is a perfect example of good design that’s not attempting to reinvent the wheel. Rather, it’s just aiming to function and function well (and perhaps look good while doing it).

Called ‘CUTEA,’ the set features a metal tea infuser, matte ceramic saucer, and matching ceramic saucer. The wide-mouthed infuser nests beautifully within each ceramic piece. After brewing, simply pull the chain and drop it in the saucer to ensure excess water is contained instead of leaking all over your counter or tabletop.

Designer: Eugenie de Loynes

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An Instagram-worthy Infuser!

The Porthole Infuser does exactly what you think it does. Moreover, it looks great while doing it. Made for the most delicious and Instagram-worthy infusions, the Porthole can make everything from infused cocktails, to syrups, to oils, dressings, or even cold-brewed artisan teas and coffees. Inspired by a submarine or ship’s porthole style window, the Porthole Infuser is circular with transparent panels on both sides, literally offering a window into the liquid infusion process happening on the inside.

The design is rather unique and immediately striking, making the Porthole a rather interesting centerpiece for your dinner table. The circular form comes with a spout on top, and a dead-weight at the bottom corner, that keeps it stable and upright, while also breaking the circle’s form, making for an interesting aesthetic. The transparent panels are removable and can lock in place using a threaded screw in the center. A gasket around the rim prevents the oil/water/alcohol from leaking outwards. Fill the center space with fruits, vegetables, spices, or anything else that you want to extract the flavor from. Then once you fill the ingredients in and lock the panel in place, stand the Porthole upright and pour the liquid down the spout. An arced filter keeps the solids in its place, permitting only the liquid to flow. Let the Porthole sit for a few hours, allowing the liquid to extract every ounce of flavor from the ingredients, while also making for a beautiful display of the infusion process. Agitate the Porthole once or twice in between to make sure the flavors mix well. Then when you’re done infusing, pour the liquid out and enjoy an absolute orgy of flavors and fragrances. Wow!

P.S. I’ve left you a recipe for a life-affirming, heart-warming cocktail at the bottom of this article. Enjoy!

Designer: Martin Kastner (Crucial Detail)

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Teforia Smart Tea Infuser Aims to Give You the Best Cup of Tea Ever

If you enjoy a good cup of tea, then you know that brewing is something to take seriously. Well, if you want a perfect cup of tea every time, the Teforia Smart Tea Infuser should do the trick.


This system is designed to bring out the flavor of your tea so that it tastes like never before. Making tea is an ancient art and this machine aims to bring that art into the 21st century.


In addition to their own custom tea pods, Teforia can identify the best brewing method for your tea of choice thanks to an app that has a huge database of teas and can set the proper temperature, pressure, and brew duration to ensure a proper infusion.

The Teforia Infuser retails for $1499(USD), so you’ve got to be a serious tea junkie with deep pockets before you buy one.

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It’s 2016. Let’s just ditch the flavored teabags.

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I’m a picky tea drinker. I think we all are. That’s why instant-tea has never caught on as a concept. We tea-consumers are very particular about the way it tastes, and that’s why you have a million varieties of tea. However, there isn’t one product that boasts of being able to concoct these different types of tea, until now. The Enfuse is a tea flask with the capability of making the tea that’s curated to your taste. It comes with four flavor compartments that you can fill with anything from powdered spices to lemon zest. With the simple push of each compartment the flavorings of your choice are released into your precious brew, giving it that distinct, curated taste; because if you’re a tea drinker, you deserve the finest!

Designer: Hussain Almossawi

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A Decanter Evolved

Cleverly called “Incanter,” this hand-crafted hybrid decanter/infuser is made from lead-free crystal, with a borosilicate rod that capably holds your ingredients but won’t weigh it down. Drawing upon the Sempli brand’s playful and sophisticated aesthetic, the spinning design makes it possible to imbue a unique flavor to your spirits, cocktails hot/cold beverages, teas, sparking water and more. Simply add your favorite flavors, place them in the infuser tube and spin away! Get it here.

Designer: Sempli

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Tongue in Tea: Tongue-Shaped Silicone Tea Infuser

Tongue Silicone Tea Infuser

 

You wouldn’t put your tongue in someone else’s cup of tea now, would you? I would. Not my actual tongue (because that would just be gross!) but this tongue-shaped tea infused that helps you prepare a soothing cup of tea.

Looking for a unique way to set your tea party apart? Then you need to look no further. The new Tongue shaped tea infuser gives a fresh new way to envy your friends with a unique design. The tea gently gets infused with warm water through the holes in the shape of the accessory so that you enjoy the fresh taste every time.

Now isn’t that swell? (Not to mention, slightly swollen too…) The infuser is made from food-grade silicone so you don’t have to worry about having it fall apart after several uses. The Tongue tea infuser retails for $9.

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Have a Whale of a Tea Time!

Enjoy your favorite infusions with a little help from the lovable Dreaming Whale Tea Infuser! Made of food-friendly silicone, it’s soft to grip and never too hot to touch. Its detachable decorative spout stream also makes for a perfect muddler or stirrer. Get it here!

Designers: Juhyun Yu & Changbong Heo

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Robot Tea Infuser

Tea. A good number of geeks are shifting to tea just because their nerves are so frayed from years of caffeine abuse that it’s medically sound to do so. So tea infusers are always popular. Last time we told you about the Mr. Tea Infuser and y’all went all clickety-sharey with it. So how about the Robot Tea Infuser above? He’s got adjustable metal arms so it fits pretty much any size mug and at $12, is cheap enough to stuff into anyone’s stocking this Holiday season.

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That’s No Moon, It’s a Death Star Tea Infuser

If you want to make the best cup of Imperial tea ever, forget tea bags. You need to soak a Death Star in your cup. A Death Star filled with sweet fragrant tea leaves. This silver space station may not shoot lasers at Alderaan, but it will infuse hot water with tasty (and evil) tea.

Death Star Tea Infuser is the ultimate power in your tea cup
I love the TIE Fighter at the end of the chain. I can easily see Grand Moff Tarkin making his tea with this and relaxing in his quarters. Until Vader disturbs him with the latest problems of course. Of course, depending on how long you let it steep your tea can be either on the Light Side or the Dark Side.

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It’s the best tea infuser ever, and is available for $19.99(USD) from Thinkgeek. It will make tea time a very special geek time.