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Tech NewsGadgetsA Toaster Company Is Releasing an Android Phone
If a company can figure out how to perfectly toast a slice of bread, it can surely bring something to the table with regards to Android smartphone design. And anyway, some people think Android phones are nothing but chunks of carbs, so there’s clearly a market out there! Balmuda is a Japanese company that developed … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsThis Shiny Connected Toaster Uses Your Smartphone to Remember Your Perfect Toasting Settings
It’s one of the simplest appliances in your kitchen, but how many times have you popped bread in a toaster, only to have it nuke your slice because the previous user had it set to well done? Too often, which is why Griffin Technology’s shiny new Connected Toaster isn’t that absurd of an idea. The … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidCan an olympic cyclist cycle hard enough to toast bread?
It’s an easy joke to say that you can power your electronics by just getting on a hamster wheel or riding a bike but the truth is, it’s really, really tough to do in real time. And we’re not even Olympic athletes. German track cyclist Robert Förstemann is and even with his watermelon-sized thighs, he … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Image Toaster Brings Google Images to Your Breakfast
We live in the future, so chances are you’ve got all manner of gadgets flashing and beeping at you to remind you what’s happening on any given day. But your toast isn’t in on all that fun. And why shouldn’t it be? If you had something like the Image Toaster, it could be. And maybe … Continued
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The Roastie Toaster Concept Rotates to Reach Toasty Perfection
Who doesn’t love toast? I don’t want to hear it! It’s taking bread to another level. But sometimes bread doesn’t toast evenly! This Roastie Toaster is a concept design by Mateusz Glówka that not only has a lovely see through spherical body but also has rotating heating elements (those metal beams) that give your bread … Continued
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OK Go’s Amazing New Video Is 2,430 Pieces of Toast Long
Click to viewI can’t imagine the pressure of being in OK Go, having to constantly churn out jaw-dropping videos. Fortunately, I don’t have to. I get to just sit back and enjoy the stunning results, like this stop-motion story told with toast. The look of this video for “Last Leaf” is so pared down, so … Continued
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Waterford Clink-Clink App is a Must for New Years Eve
Convoluted? Yes. Naff? Probably. Cute? Absolutely. Flirting tool? I’m afraid so. Waterford Clink-Clink—a virtual toast application for iPhone that exchanges contact information—is one of those applications that you don’t really need, but that you know you absolutely want. It’s quite clever. The app responds to motion, clinking when you do the toast, with the champagne … Continued
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Happy 100th Birthday To The Toaster
The internet loves the toaster. Why? Because it makes toast…which reminds us of breakfast…which reminds us of bacon. So, it is only fitting that we wish it well on its 100th birthday. Indeed, 2009 represents 100 years since Frank Shailor and General Electric came up with the D12 in 1909. It may look like a … Continued
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The Toaster that Longed to Be a VCR
While most of our homes resemble some ’60s sci-fi TV show, adorned in A/V equipment loaded to the gills with LEDs, our kitchens have remained sadly tasteful. That was, until this Jacob Jensen toaster. Resembling a VCR turned on its side, the Jacob Jensen one-slot toaster features LED-backlit buttons that will bring a blue home … Continued
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Roxio Toast 10 Titanium Burns Media, Streams to iPhone, Transfers Video Files to Your Tivo
Roxio Toast 10 Titanium is the latest refresh to the do-it-all, disc burning and file converting app. Now it streams media to your iPhone over 3G, and sends video files to your Tivo. Most, if not all, of the same features found in Toast 9 are still available in Toast 10. This includes burning of … Continued
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Vader Toaster is Most Awesome Bread-Branding Device Yet
You are weak, Cylon. *scary breathing effect* And if you need a cheery morning note on your breakfast food you do not know the power of the Dark Side. Leave this to me, I will deal with the toast myself, even if the crust is strong with this one. *scary breathing effect, again* Buy this … Continued
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Scan Toaster Prints Text, Photos From the Internet onto Your Bread
If you are the kind of person who rushes around in the morning, but always makes the time for toast, you will love the Scan Toaster printer concept by designer Sung Bae Chang. Details are scarce, but we do know that it connects to the internet via USB and is capable of printing images or … Continued
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Concept Toast-Dropping Toaster is Real After All: The Trapdoor Toaster
We gave the Nahamer T450 toaster concept design a big thumbs-up for its simplicity… but it turns out that there’s actually a real toast-dropping versus toast-popping machine. The Trapdoor Toaster does exactly what it sounds like it does. It’s a 1400W device, with auto-adjusting guide racks so it can do toast, bagels or pop-tart-style food. … Continued
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Battlestar Galactica Toaster Brands Your Bread With a Cylon
I love Battlestar Galactica and I also love the tasty, whole grain wheatyness of toast. But alas, I cannot live out my dream of combining my two loves into a single product. Wait one second…now I can, thanks to this limited edition $65 toaster from the Sci-Fi Channel! Each Battlestar Galactica branded toaster burns those … Continued
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Tech NewsThe “Moaster” is the Highest Popping Toaster in the World
You know how sometimes your toast doesn’t quite pop out of the toaster fully? And because your judgment is a little impaired that early in the morning, you decide to jam a fork in there to dig it out only to be electrocuted and rushed to the hospital? Sure, we have all been there. However, … Continued
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