Is it just me or does this tea maker, the Krups TeaTime, look a lot like the Adagio TriniTEA?

Very curious. Wonder which came first? I’m guessing Adagio’s machine, which has had a few model upgrades already, but who knows.

*UPDATE: After searching around a bit, I discovered that the Krups machine is no longer available in the US and that, according to at least one review on Adagio, the Krups was the chicken before the egg:

Regardless, I’m a fan of mine. :) I’ll be making a TeaToday with it very soon, to test how the TeaSource Wild Mountain Dragonwell tastes as an iced tea!

Alex over at Another Tea Blog posted a couple weeks ago about The Republic of Tea’s Rose PetalTea, and it made me chuckle when catching up with my tea feeds in Google Reader this afternoon, so I thought I’d pass it along: