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A teapot with a spout built into the handle and a handle built onto the spout can be poured in either direction. Great for a southpaw with a right-handed neighbor or two southpaws across from each other or...
The unique, balanced pots have hygienic, hinged spout lids and extra thick spout-handles
for strength and coolness. Click on rough sketch below.
lethal cozies
http://www.findarti...17/p1/article.jhtml
[po, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
(?) more odd pots
http://www.jnd.org/...ion-and-design.html
Donald O. Norman design critic. [DadManWalking, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Tank teapot
http://www.abitofbritain.com/tanksa.htm
[kbecker, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Sorta baked
http://www.alessi.c...talogo=1087&old=145
Just saw it in the Design Museum [skinflaps, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
rough sketch
http://www.geocitie...mmetricteapot.html?
[FarmerJohn, Jan 04 2005]
[link]
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given time, you could probably solve all the world's major problems... |
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... first one solved.
"Q : How can you have a cup of tea and a fight at the same time"
"A : FarmerJohnnie's Symmetrical Teapot". |
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If I vote it up will you make me one? |
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I'll make you a pot...of tea. |
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Really? What do you have? |
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Uh, only Gunpowder, Spider Leg and Black Dragon. |
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Mix a little of each. I take a lump and a squeeze. Pour mine from the left, please... |
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It's the beauty you're after not the point. |
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it can be very dangerous turning a hot teapot around, tsk. |
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several people die each year due to teacozies, just think what teapots do! |
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[po] If government safety guidelines are anything to go by, we'll soon have to have some sort of certification to get dressed in a morning. Nice link btw. |
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guidelines to protect us from government? |
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Isn't it polite to pour tea for your companion as well as yourself? Or do you sit there with the teapot between the two of you alternately reaching out, grabbing it, and filling your own cup? (There are few problems in the world that can't be solved by good manners.) |
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I will! Now you go and tidy your room up this minute or you won't get any tea. |
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One difficulty I can see is that the places for holding might get excessively hot. |
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What annoys me is the straight alignment between handle and spout on teapots. That often makes it difficult to pour unless I can position myself just right. I need a pot with the spout mounted on the lid, and the lid swiveling. That way I just tip the pot toward the cup, the spout turns toward the cup and I start pouring, straight, sideways, any angle I want. - Not sure about the technology. |
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[silverstormer] I dont know man. as the moral police i say we guys have lost it! |
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I particularly like how [po]'s link talks about how lethal socks are, and the related sponsored links bar tries to sell you... socks.
It's a dangerous world out there. |
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kbecker, you should post your turret teapot annotation as an idea. |
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kropotkin's cut to the quick: the technology might make
taking tea more convenient, but would obviate the need
for courtesy. The trend reduces occasions for exercising
social and other graces. |
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Supercat is on to something.
Handles are traditionally hollow
and air filled so that they can
remain relatively cool. The
suggested design allows hot tea to
flow through the handle and make
it uncomfortably hot. |
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I'll just sit over here and hope
someone else pours... |
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In silver (good conductor) teapots
they even build in a thermal
isolator for the handle lest you
cook your fingers. |
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you have, of course, seen Donald
Norman's classic worst case
"masochist"
version...[linkey] |
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[UB] looks like tank teapots are around (link). Sadly the turret does not swivel. We'll have to halfbake it. |
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The (link) is worth browsing if you are into teapots. Looks like the Farmer smoked some of his homegrown weeds. ;-) |
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Con: If you moved it too fast, it
might spill water out the spout/
handle near your hand, scalding
your arm. |
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[sonyuser] - this could be solved with some kind of simple valve system: by grasping a handle, you close off the flow of tea from that handle's spout. |
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Or, better yet, both/all spouts could normally be closed, and a spout would only open when the opposite handle was grasped (using levers or whatever). If a teapot needs to vent some steam (not being a tea connoisseur I wouldn't know), add a central vent. |
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[FarmerJohn]: Now if you could turn your attention to a re-design of those hotel teapots that were seemingly designed by a practical joker?
You know, the stainless steel ones that dribble the tea down the side of the pot, and if you angle the pot over some more to try to stop it dribbling, the lid falls into your cup? |
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Symmetric about a plane? Fairly trivial. I challange you to design a functional teapot that is symmetric about a line. Then someone could grab and pour it from any angle. Don't try around a point though - it's just not worth it. |
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