If someone gave me a buck for every time I’ve spilled coffee on my clothes, I could stop working for a day or two. Travel mugs are a great thing since they’re reusable and they keep your coffee hot, but most of them end up dripping out or pouring out some of their contents in your car or on your nice clean clothes at some point.
This spillproof Kaze mug from Innate is more like a modified Thermos vacuum bottle that is so secure you could throw it into a messenger bag or briefcase full of papers and not worry. To test out that claim I carried it around all morning in a laptop backpack as I moved from place to place. Six hours later, not one drop had gotten out and the coffee was still really hot.
This is a bit of a Transformers product in that this travel mug has several parts that can be used or removed as needed. There’s a handle to give it a traditional mug feel, a screw-on lid that can also be used as a cup, and a “drinking collar” that can be used with or without the spill-stopping button mechanism.
Two of these parts conflict though. I don’t use the buttom mechanism if I have the handle on it, for instance, because that forces me to be a two-fisted drinker. 
The way the handle is designed, there’s no way to press the button with the same hand. So you awkwardly hold the handle with one hand and push the button with the other. How geeky are you willing to look to have really hot coffee for hours?
Otherwise, this vacuum travel mug from Innate delivers as promised, being a spillproof mug that truly is spillproof, with no way for the button to get pressed accidentally when the lid is screwed on. It is excellent in the insulation department, to the point where you could fill it with soup at 7 am and have a hot lunch at 1pm. It comes in several designs and you can switch out the lid with any of the others made by Innate, so you could use it for cold drinks meant for sipping in the summer.
The Kaze holds 13.5 ounces (425 ml), weighs 12 ounces, and comes in five patterned and solid designs. As with all Innate stainless steel bottles, it’s BPA-free. It lists for $25 Canadian, $20 in the U.S.
#1 by Nouman Zeb - September 23rd, 2009 at 09:56
A spillproof mug like this is a must have. thanks for the info.
#2 by Billy O. - November 20th, 2009 at 19:54
It seems like the button location kind of defeats the purpose. If you can’t use the mug one handed while the handle is on, it will be a lot less useful when comnmuting.