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16 January 2007
Hottest Toaster around Smooth looking toaster. Where can I buy it? I guess it's just a study though.
The toaster is gorgeous. I wonder if the part that's done first totally cools down while the rest of the bread's still in the toaster though?
Heyyyyy...I have a really cool laminater (laminator?) here that works on exactly the same principal. I wonder if I can use it to make toast. I've been trying to think of something really cool to do with this thing. It only laminates things no larger than a business card though.
I like ending paragraphs with the word 'though'. You do too. Though.
If i had a serious toast habit, i'd definitely think about it.
My only problem with toasters is they take up space to do one thing. This one looks good and you could have it hold your mail or something.
Or burn your bills if you didn't trust your shredder.
Guys, iconomy's letting us know she has a laminator. We know she has photoshop.
Profit?
Oh man, crackers don't fit in it. Too thick. I also tried a single kernel of corn, which came out almost popped. Then when I put it back in again it got squashed...hehe. Can you imagine how long it would take to make a bowl of popcorn if I popped each kernel individually?
eth, what can I make with a lam and photoshop? I need an idea! I thought of jewelry of some kind...maybe find really cool fonts and spell out words and make pins, or something?
That's hilarious. "You can now buy candy that’ll make you and your special "boy" friend into homodachi–your gay lover."
Because all it takes is candy! Everyone knows that candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
dano, you're quite the detective. I personally think it's a bit squicky for someone to come here and have their very first interaction with us be a link to their own site. Wham bam, thank you ma'am.
Yeah, the little story blurb is hilarious, too.
If we start getting spammed by "proud members of b5 media" we should get some kind of click through cut or the middle fingers of the offending parties, but it's a fun page just for the discovery of panic straws so we can all share each other's drinks at the next meet up.
Cute toaster, but it won't do bagels or texas toast without fundamentally changing the geometry of the bread product. I'm also curious if the toast stays warm enough to melt butter by the time it's toasted.
I agree with plinth -- this is one case where aesthetics fight with function, which in my eyes at least, does not equal good design.
If you want two pieces of toast, you can't walk away; you've got to go back and feed the second piece in. I wonder how long it takes. It's justified by this bit of art claptrap:
This toaster is designed to engage the user, re-invigorating the social context of toasting by questioning everything about what we toast with today…
Yeah. And this user is wondering if those 'questions' were questions like "How can we make it a lot harder and more annoying to prepare a simple food at most people's least functional time of day?"
Ah well. Sure, it's just a fun exercise for someone to design something like this. But it looks like a pain. And let me go on the record saying that though I eat toast for breakfast every day, I don't have a toaster right now. I make toast by 'grilling' it in a skillet on the stovetop.
Miko, what's your problem? What have you got against interacting with your environment? What have you got against engaging your toast? What have you got against AMERICA?
and it was just for a ceramics contest sooo...
being the only thing that wasn't a bowl, plate or cup makes it a pretty cool win.
i do like the word bubble plates, though.
If you wrapped a piece of paper or cardboard in a sandwich bag, then fed the whole thing into the toaster, I bet you'd find the toaster made a great laminator.
My mother got me this weird thing a couple years ago: sandwich bags. You were supposed to make your cheesey sandwich, place it in the bag, place it in the toaster, toast & voila, grilled sandwich! Melted cheese! Brilliant idea.
That had forgotten about this little thing called gravity. The melted cheese all slid down off the sandwich and formed a charming, greasy glob at the bottom of the bag. If you had foolishly put the bag in upside down because, you know, you're an idiot and you were all excited about your new toaster technology, you would shortly find yourself toasterless because the grease from the cheese would pretty much ignite as it all fell in a giant wad onto the heating element.
However, that bag would work with this thing.
Also however, unless criticker comes back and makes nice, I say we toast him. Don't we have an initial post self link policy of some kind where we actually get to be cranky and the link gets pulled so we stop sending them traffic?
mgl, I agree with you. I don't think there's an actual policy, but actually the only reasons I left this up is because
1. I thought maybe criticker discovered how cool we were via the link from Sasshat's post the other day, and decided he wanted to be one of us. Even though it's sort of looking like that isn't the case.
2. We're having a fun discussion about sammiches and art and design and toast and gay man candy!
My thought was to leave it up for a few hours and see if he came back, and if not, hose it. I'm going to lunch now and if nothing changes and taz or sean haven't weighed in, I'll delete it.
Can we just nuke the link and now can we start saying mean things? I am SO ready to say mean things because I'm trying to write a kids' science camp brochure and I'm running out of Swell Science Stuff! to say, plus I just almost put the phrase "Plant the Seeds of Science and Watch them Sprout in Your Child's Fertile Little Brain" into print only I stopped myself. So I say:
Plant the Seeds of An Intergalactic Strangling Poison Ivy Zapping Electroshock Vine in criticker's fertile little brain! And watch it sprout - through his/her nostrils! Ha ha!
Oh, they think I'd love Borat to pieces, where I'm pretty confident that I'd think it was not horrible, but kinda stupid. I'd give another example, but the page keeps timing out.
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