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This Tea Machine Makes The Classic Indian Chai Easier To Prepare

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Chai, a beloved staple in Indian households, holds a special place in the hearts of many. It’s more than just a beverage; it’s a symbol of hospitality, warmth, and tradition. A group of three Indian friends living in London, who happened to be accounting and finance experts, recognized the significance of chai in their lives and sought to create a product that would make the preparation of this beloved drink easier and more convenient for working professionals. The result is the Dostea Tea Machine, a groundbreaking innovation that combines technology with tradition to deliver an authentic and hassle-free chai experience. Why not have tea machines just like those for coffee?

Designers: Arun KumarM, Vyasateja Rao, Anil Ramesh (Analogy Design)

Crafting a traditional chai can be a laborious endeavor, often involving the use of various utensils and resulting in a messy process. The Dostea Tea Machine, designed with the UK market in mind, aims to address these challenges. With a simple press of a button, it provides a fresh, home-brewed cup of chai, eliminating the usual hassle and mess associated with the traditional method.

Dostea’s collaboration with Analogy was driven by a shared goal: to capture the authentic experience of homemade chai, including its unique taste, aroma, flavor, and vibrant color. To achieve this, they embarked on an extensive exploration process, conducting multiple rounds of experimentation to uncover the ideal design.

Taking inspiration from both UK and Indian design excellence in industrial design, the team conceptualized a unique body and mechanism for the tea machine. The goal was to craft a visually appealing and functionally efficient device that not only brewed exceptional chai but also provided a delightful aesthetic experience for users.

The Dostea Tea Machine features patent-worthy engineering, blending British and Indian design elements seamlessly. Its sleek curves, elegant lines, and carefully selected materials evoke sophistication and cultural fusion. The machine’s form was meticulously crafted to emulate the warmth of a sunrise, infusing every cup of tea with a touch of magic and the promise of a new day.

The Dostea Tea Machine has reached its prototype stage, undergoing intensive testing to ensure ideal brewing conditions for perfect flavor extraction. Externally, it boasts a user-friendly design, sleek appearance, and strategically placed controls for ease of use. The machine also includes thoughtful accessories such as a removable kettle and milk frother to enhance the homemade chai experience. This prototype embodies the careful balance of art and science in chai brewing, demonstrating the commitment of the Dostea and Analogy teams to delivering an unmatched chai experience worldwide.

The Dostea Tea Machine prioritizes a simple and convenient user experience. From the product’s shape and form to the interface design, it aims to facilitate the creation of that perfect cup of chai, customized to each user’s liking. The intuitive interface empowers users to enjoy their chai just the way they prefer, without the fuss and mess associated with traditional methods.

The Dostea Tea Machine is more than just a kitchen appliance; it’s a testament to the fusion of tradition and technology and an embodiment of the love for chai that transcends borders. For busy professionals who cherish a quick cup of authentic chai, this innovative product is set to revolutionize their daily routines, offering an authentic chai experience without the usual hassles. With its elegant design and engineering, the Dostea Tea Machine ensures that the essence and emotion of a handmade cup of chai remain intact while making chai preparation as simple as the press of a button.

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NASA Astronaut Space Suit Can Koozie

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Because there are few things more enjoyable in life than sipping a cold one and playing space rangers, maker of outerwear-inspired koozies Puffin Drinkwear is selling this insulated Space Suit koozie. The can cover fits standard 12- and 16-ounce cans and includes a tiny closable backpack for storing other goodies like… actually, I’m not sure what. Glitterstim? Freeze-dried ice cream?

This is easily one of the top five koozies I’ve ever seen, and I will be buying one. Or rather, I’ll be putting it on my Christmas list and purchasing one myself after everybody lets me down like they have every other year. My family always asks what I want, I show them my list, and I still get a yearly membership to the Jelly of the Month Club instead.

Do you think this is what the real astronauts aboard the International Space Station drink out of? Of course not. They drink out of pouches, just like kangaroos would if they were smarter. There’s a good reason kangaroos haven’t been to the moon, you know. Granted, I don’t know what it is, but there definitely is one.

[via The Awesomer]

Get the party started with alphabet ice cubes that give drinks a personalized touch

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G is for Gary, J is for Juice, and U will be the star of the show.

Unless you’re serving only hot coffee or tea at a party, chances are you will need to keep your drinks cold or at least chilled, even after the drink is poured into glasses. Ice cubes and tubes are common and, to be honest, as boring as a stale drink. If you want to make your gatherings a bit more exciting and have your guests really talking, why not insert a bit of a surprise where they least expect it. Ice cubes that come in forms other than, well, cubes immediately attract attention, but ones that come in the 26 letters of the English alphabet are sure to pique people’s curiosities, especially when each glass and each letter are personalized to a guest’s name. It also ensures that you will be remembered as the best host ever, making it easier to get others to join next time.

Designer: DrinksPlinks

Click Here to Buy Now: $29 $35 (16% off). Hurry, for a limited time only!

There are so many things we can take for granted in our daily lives, even at parties. There are also so many small things we can tweak and change that would result in massive improvements to an experience. Seeing a frozen letter floating in your drink, for example, is sure to make anyone pause and ask, maybe even chuckle or laugh. It’s the perfect conversation starter and ice breaker, pun totally intended.

DrinksPlinks’ Alphabet of Ice Cubes offers a dead-simple way to make drinks interesting while also keeping them chilled for maximum enjoyment. You can use whatever system you prefer, whether to customize each drink to match a guest’s name or the drink’s name. Perhaps you can even use those letters to spell out your own name, making sure no one forgets you or your parties. Need to get the adrenaline pumping a little bit? Why not devise a party game designed around the letters of the alphabet? Hopefully, you also came prepared for prizes, because there will probably be a lot of eager participants.

Personal-ice Your Drinks – The A-Z of ice cubes means everyone from Adam – Zoe can personal-ice their drinks.

Chills Not Dilutes – Every letter is 4cm thick and melts slowly, keeping its shape.

Each ice tray comes with four molds for a single letter, making sure that you won’t run out of alphabets for Viviene, Violet, Vince, and Victor. The ice cubes not only make each glass interesting but also keeps the drink inside chilled without diluting its flavors. There’s no bigger downer than a large glass of iced tea that tastes like cold, brown-colored water. And despite their sizes and shapes, these frozen letters still let you easily stir your goblet’s contents to ensure an even distribution of flavor.

Not Just for Ice – Get creative and use DrinksPlinks molds for baking, chocolates, candles, resin, soap, candy, plaster + more.

Get rid of the awkward pauses of silence by handing everyone a drink with their names written on it, almost literally. DrinksPlinks thinks outside the cube to bring curiosity and whimsy to a party or any gathering for that matter, reminding guests, friends, and family members that it’s a time to kick back even for a little bit and have fun, establishing social connections with the people around you. With the Alphabet of Ice Cubes, you can easily personal-ice your drinks and make your parties more personal, more fun, and, most importantly, more memorable, too.

Click Here to Buy Now: $29 $35 (16% off). Hurry, for a limited time only!

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Countertop Slush Puppie Machine Is Brain Freeze Ready

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A staple of gas stations when I was growing up, Slush Puppies are hands down one of the best beverages to drink if you want your mom constantly nagging that you’re going to rot all your teeth out. Available from FireBox, the $100 countertop Slush Puppie machine allegedly produces Slush Puppies just like you remember: insanely sweet and painfully cold.

The countertop Slush Puppie machine can produce a liter of slush every 15-25 minutes, with the option for a coarse or fine ice grain. Just add water, ice, salt, and Slush Puppie syrup (sold separately in 500mL bottles – enough to make 4 liters apiece), and you’re well on your way to a debilitating brain freeze! I… I can’t think straight!

FireBox reminds you that if you’re going to add alcohol to your Slush Puppie, you need to do so AFTER making it in the machine. Otherwise, the alcohol will prevent the mix from freezing properly since its freezing temperature is significantly colder than water. Of course, anybody like me who’s tried and failed to make alcohol freezy pops on spring break probably already knows that.

Ice Monster D20 Whiskey Rocks: Roll to See How Many Sips You Take

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Tabletop gaming campaigns: I’ve found they’re best enjoyed with a drink in hand. And what better way to combine your love of tabletop gaming and fine spirits than with these Ice Monster D20 Whiskey Rocks? I can’t think of any. Granted, I didn’t try very hard, but thinking gives me headaches.

Currently an already funded Kickstarter campaign, $52 will get you a single D20 stone with either an Ice Dragon or Lich King theme, and $92 will get you one of each. The stones measure approximately 1.6″ wide and 1.9″ tall and are constructed from laser-etched volcanic obsidian. They’re rated as food safe, which is an important attribute as far as things you’re going to put in a drink go.

Am I going to pull my lucky whiskey stone D20s out of my glass to roll whenever it’s my turn? Yes. Will it be the last time I’m invited to game night? Also yes. Whatever, who needs friends to play role-playing games with when I just bought a whole stack of Choose Your Own Adventure books from the thrift store?

[via The Awesomer]

Super Mario Bros. Warp Pipe Can Koozie: Don’t Drink the Piranha Plants

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Keeping your drink cold: it’s a necessity. Unless you’re drinking coffee or hot chocolate, then it’s the exact opposite of what I said. Besides, there’s already a coffee mug warp pipe for your hot beverage needs. But this is about beverages of the canned variety. And what better way to sip an insulated cold one and pledge your allegiance to old-school gaming than with this Super Mario Bros.-inspired warp pipe can koozie? Luigi would be so proud.

Made by Toynk and available on Amazon (affiliate link), the officially-licensed koozie looks just like an 8-bit warp pipe from the original Super Mario Bros. game for the NES. It will undoubtedly keep my Monster Energy nice and cold while I spent countless, infuriating hours trying to set a new speedrun record for the game, smashing controller after controller and unsettling the neighbors with my screaming.

I can never think of Super Mario Bros. and not think about how when I was a kid I’d convince my brother that the pits on the water levels were actually warp zones, so he’d swim down them and die and it would be my turn again. He still doesn’t trust me to this day.

[via The Awesomer]

Grenade-shaped Whiskey Stones: Bombs Away!

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Whiskey: for optimal tasting, it’s best served around 60 – 65°F (15-18°C), but adding ice can actually dilute some of the flavor notes. So how can you chill your whiskey without diluting it? With whiskey stones, of course. Or, in this case, whiskey grenades. Fire in the hole!

Created by The Wine Savant and available on Amazon (affiliate link), the 1.8″ grenades are constructed from 304-grade stainless steel and are ready for use in less than an hour in the freezer. They come in a four-pack and include a storage bag and tongs so you can place the grenades in your drink instead of lobbing them in like actual grenades and breaking all your glassware.

Of course, wanting to make sure your whiskey is at optimal tasting temperature to express all the intended flavors is assuming you’re drinking a whiskey you actually want to taste, and not the back-alley swill I drink. The stuff I drink is best poured directly past your taste buds, where you hope it goes down and stays down.

[via The Green Head]

Sinking Ship Cocktail Glass: You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat

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Presumably inspired by the Titanic (which also had four smokestacks and sank), this is the Sinking Ship cocktail glass available from FireBox. The $19 drinking vessel has a handblown glass ship inside, so you can pretend you’re Poseidon releasing his wrath upon humanity by swirling the glass to create a whirlpool and making a mess all over the living room carpet.

I’ve heard of a ship in a bottle before, but never a ship in a glass. FireBox suggests mixing a blue curaçao based drink in the vessel and adding a few large ice cubes for Titanic realism or filling the glass with coffee liqueur to resemble an oil spill. Alternatively, fill the glass with red sangria and pretend sharks are having a feeding frenzy.

The borosilicate glass is hand-wash only and comes with a warning to add ice cubes carefully and not just toss them in willy-nilly, because the last thing you want is to break off a jagged piece of glass then accidentally swallow it thinking it’s ice. Speaking from firsthand experience, that can really ruin date night.

Coronavirus Shaped Ice Cube Molds Are an Actual Product

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Cocktails: sometimes they can help a bad time seem a little better. And unless you’ve been living under a rock this year (any room under there for me?), 2020 has been pretty much an eight-month-long bad time so far. Enter this silicone ice cube tray mold, which creates coronavirus shaped ice cubes, so you can slowly drink the actual virus away. Except they’re technically not ice cubes, they’re spheres with little nubs all over them like the exercise ball in the corner of my living room. I’m going to use that to get fit one day, you watch.

Designed by Misshapen and available on Amazon for $20 (affiliate link), the molds make the perfect ice cubes for your next pandemic party. And just so we’re clear, a pandemic party is making yourself a cocktail at home alone or covertly during a business Zoom meeting. Noisemaker optional.

I actually use spherical ice molds myself when I’m making drinks at home, and due to their large size and a sphere’s decreased surface area compared to a cube, they work significantly better at chilling a drink without diluting it. In this case, chicken broth and vodka. Mmmmm, great for fighting a cold too.

Pour Your Booze into the Minibar Guitar Effect Pedal and Get It Drunk

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Do you like to have a drink while you’re playing the guitar? Well, if you’ve got any booze left over, you can now put it to good use as part of your performance. Yep, this unique guitar effects pedal is designed to sip liquids and uses them to influence its sounds.

Simply unscrew the watertight lid on its top, pour the beverage of your choice into the Rainger FX Minibar Liquid Analyzer, and the conductive properties of said liquid will be used by its circuit to affect signal gain. In addition, the opacity of your drink will affect the equalization of the sound.

So your IPA will sound dramatically different than your chocolate stout, and your Kentucky bourbon will most definitely make different sounds than your Highlands single malt scotch. It works with other kinds of liquids too, like soda pop, coffee, or even nail polish remover.

The Minibar stomp pedal is available direct from Rainger FX for roughly $150. Booze not included.

[via Guitar World – Thanks, Mike!]