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^{It’s no secret Brits love their tea. From elevenses to afternoon tea, they drink 165 million cups a day, according to the UK Tea and Infusions Association. Unfortunately, so many of them fill up their tea kettles for just one or two cups, that they waste a lot of water and energy heating up unused H2O.}

^{“If everyone boiled only the water they needed every time they used the kettle, we could save enough electricity in a year to power the UK’s street lights for nearly seven months,” Caroline Rams of the U.K.’s Energy Saving Trust told The Telegraph in 2010. In 2013, the Trust estimated Brits could save £68m a year by not overfilling the kettle.}

^{In order to combat this problem, Danish design studio Chudy and Grase created the Miito. It’s not a tea kettle. Instead, it’s a new way to boil water. It consists of two parts: an induction base and a magnetic rod. Whether you’re heating a mug or a pot full of water, you drop the rod into the container. Miito creates an electromagnetic field, heating the water.}

^{Americans drink a lot of tea, though it’s primarily iced. However, the Miito seems like it could work just as well for heating a mug of cocoa or a bowl of soup, if you didn’t want to use your microwave and prefer your hot chocolate piping hot.}

^{Still, even if this just gets the tea-swilling population to think about how much water they use in their kettles, it’s a step in the right energy-saving direction.}

^{Right now, Miito is just in its prototype phase, though it’s been shortlisted for a James Dyson Award. Whether or not the new water-boiling system catches on, it has inspired us to start calling our 4 o’clock snack break “afternoon tea.”}

^{Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/tead-device-will-change-way-boil-water/#ixzz3JtX9YSU0 
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