Now, anyone that has made loose tea before knows that the biggest problem when it comes to loose tea is cleaning up the leftovers. Many people love the taste of loose tea better than bagged tea, but you can remove the bag quite easily once the tea has been made; not so with any loose material that you might have had to put into the cup in order to make the steeping work in the first place. If you are enjoying the tea that you’ve just made and suddenly you feel some of the loose leaves making their way into your mouth, then your tea experience has just been ruined. Strainers don’t always work that well and ultimately the same problem might exist for them too.

Enter ingenuiTea. Like every other great invention, its brilliance lies within its simplicity. When you take a look at what it is, it is essentially a tea maker extraordinaire. What you do is you start by pouring water into the cup area of the ingenuiTea and then you put the leaves and other loose material in afterwards. Let it steep for as long as you want and once you have the right amount of rich flavour locked into your product, what you do is you then go ahead and place a mug underneath the ingenuiTea. You then press the valve release and all of the liquid goes down into the mug below, while the loose material stays above and out of the way.

Because the valves are so small, you are almost guaranteed that none of the loose material will make its way through the bottom of the ingenuiTea and into your mug. Furthermore, all of the loose material gathers at the bottom of the ingenuiTea where it can quite easily be pushed out and into the garbage with little fuss; something that is not always guaranteed with the strainer. Using the ingenuiTea is quick and easy and it is simply the best way for you to get a leaf-free mug of delicious steeped tea. Any other method only adds to the annoyance and the effort required.

The design of the Shake N Take personal smoothie machine is as ingenious as it is innovative. Not only does the high power motor whip up a smoothie in a flash, the plastic blending container doubles as a carry-along cup. The simple design leaves no mess at all since you take the whole smoothie with you in the container you made it in. The plastic lid of the smoothie machine is also a functional sports bottle-style flip top that enables you to sip as you go without worrying about spills. And the whole thing fits into most automobile cup holders too. Now you can enjoy a healthy breakfast no matter how rushed you are in the morning without the fear that you will end up with fresh strawberry smoothie on your work clothes.

And the entire Shake N Take Personal Smoothie Maker stands only 14 inches high so it fits easily on any countertop and won’t take up much valuable space. Additionally the whole Shake N Take Personal Smoothie Maker is dishwasher safe so cleanup at home is a breeze too. Just throw the machine into the dishwasher and forget about it until the next morning when you need your smoothie fix. The cup holds 16 ounces of liquid and can blend almost any fruit or vegetable. The Shake N Take is designed to be so easy to encourage people to eat and snack healthier.

The only problem with the Shake N Take is that it is intended mainly for light duty so it probably won’t be able to handle crushing ice or anything like that. So, unfortunately, if you like frozen drinks (such as daiquiris) instead of smoothies, this isn’t the machine for you.