Interesting updates from Crookedbrains.

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 04:53 AM PDT

Teabag with Strings Attached: TBWA exclusively designed these special 'Tea for Health' teabags for The House Café. Each teabag has a different sporting activity attached on to the end of the string.

Rebranding The Traditional Teabag Usage: The design is inspired by Japanese CHASEN (Loose leaf tea stirring equipment), " tea bags are attached inside the teastick so there is no need of using sticks separately for stirring nor to throw away the tea bags."

Tea Forte- Packaging: Tea Forté a tea-bag/infusers from designer P Hewitt is a tall polyhedral shape with a cute tiny leaf on top.

German Tea Bags: With these German tea bags you can have a relaxing cup of tea with global leaders. RoyalTea set features various members of England's royal family, and the DemocraTea set features heads of state of various democratic countries.

T-bag: Designed by Felix Reinki, it's truly a 't-bag', it anchors itself firmly on your cup.

tPod: It's a tea bag concept by Elisabeth Soós. They are small paper boats attached to tea bags, while sort of an anchor is made out of tea.

Bruce Mau - An Incomplete Manifesto For Growth: "A proposal of a possible design solution for Bruce Mau's design manifesto, in the form of tea bags."

Ineeka Tea Bag: What makes it different from most of the others is you need to tear off the top of the tea bag and this enables you to pour the hot water directly onto the leaves without them scattering. The leaves float around in the open bag and paper arms and the sides hold the bag.

Tea Stick: It's designed by Allesandro, made with compostable materials and contains a single serving of tea.

Cool Tea Bag: Using the tea bag designed by Lee Yun Qin you can be sure of no more tea bags falling in your tea.

World's Most Expensive Tea Bag: The world's most expensive tea bag was studded with 280 diamonds worth £7,500 and was made by a British jeweler in 2005 to celebrate the 75th birthday of PG Tips.

Hand sewn Fabric Tea Bags: If your are interested to create these hand sewn fabric tea bags for loose tea favors, here are all the details you need - link.

'People' Tea Bag Holder: SangSang/Wdaru Studio during the Seoul design festival 2007 presented tea bags with 'people' tea bag holder in paper for Maum brand. These fit most common cup size and were packed in a bus-like package, in swimming pool package and even a variant with a broadcasting studio.

TeaCube: Designed by Jieun Yang & Hanah Suh, 'teacubes make it easy by placing the tea bag on a timed retractable spool'.

Penguin Teaboy: With this one you can create the perfect cup of tea every time you need; all you need to do is set the timer from 1 minute to 20 minute.

Sharky Tea Bag Holder: Designer Pablo Matteoda used shark fin design for a tea bag holder; it holds tealeaves in a floating metal fin container while slowly dispersing tealeaves colors into the water.

Squeasy Tea Bag Squeezer: We know this doesn't fit here, but we didn't find any other place either to fit this one. Ok, this is a stainless steel sleeve for your tea bag, you need to slide your tea bag it in there and squeeze to get all the liquid out.