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It means people can keep their eye on their breakfast and eject the slice at the moment it turns the perfect colour. This would eradicate the need to put the bread back down and run the risk of having to scrape burnt toast. However, a traditional timer dial is still incorporated into the design, for people who are too busy to keep an eye on their bread. A downside to the current design is that it only fits one piece of bread at a time.
Now if only they can figure out a way to incorporate your favorite toasted deity. Until then, I think I’ll wait for the upgrade.
Good idea! How does it pop out??
The new iToast Air. Where is the Apple logo?
True to form it only does half the job, one slice of toast, but it looks really really good.
#1 DavidtheDuke – The toast ejector is an optional dongle. 😉
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How old is toaster technology? How can it be that they still can’t fix the burnt toast issue?
I’ve never had a toaster that consistently got the bread how I want it. Seems like an easy-deal but I guess not.
wow a transparent toaster… now you can see your toast burning…
yeah like people are gonna stand in front of their toaster and watch it toast..
hell i might as well watch compost rot…
say does it come with a image burner as well??? i wanna sell some holy images on toast to what ever sucker i can…
on a lighter note…
remember the Amiga Jelly Jet printer, dubbed HAM on toast???
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check the second last paragraph on the forward page..
ahhh the good ol’ days when computers were fun…
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Three ways to fit your fingers into it… Real retard friendly toaster…
Unfortunately it can only make toast with bread that is exactly .16″ thick at one end.
Ah another useless device for the kitchen junkie.
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I’d love to know who came up with this. I already have a TON of questions about it that would be worthy of an interview
If my parents had this when I was a kid, no telling what mischief and mayhem I could have started. The added bonus of watching it happen is just irresistible.
I’ve never had a toaster that consistently got the bread how I want it. Seems like an easy-deal but I guess not.
AMEN!!!
It will be no bid deal to imprint a design circuit so eBayer’s can turn out Jesus or Mary bread. OMG the market will crumb-le.
Thanks to Dvorak.org/blog, we all know how a sewing machine works. But the toaster is still a mystery!
Get ready to stand in line for a day or two. 😉
http://tinyurl.com/2d9n22
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I object!!
I’m all for art, even for arts sake, but in kitchen appliances, the foundation must be functionality.
Two slice minimum, not a space heather. Better if can do bagels as well. NOW, apply that artistic flare.
(Thz==lost track of our eugenics discussion. *respect*)
“…the glass heats up enough to toast the bread.”
Isn’t that brilliant? Heat the glass with no protective casing, so it’ll toast the bread and your hands.
Bobbo – Yes I did… Eugenics is a tough one and I can see just reasons for both sides.
So I thought I would go for simpler and easier topics like the “Apple Really Really Good looking ZoolanderBook Air lapthingy” and the “Apple iToast – Because you will buy it”.
So Bobbo what is wrong with the iToast only toasting one slice of thin bread and not bagels? It doesn’t need to be convenient or even practical cause it looks good and has an Apple logo on it. Get with the program! 😉
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I think that some unconscious (and in some cases, not-so-unconscious) anti-artistic sentiment is overriding an objective assessment.
No. It doesn’t look like the toaster in your mom’s kitchen. No, it also doesn’t look like yours – you know, the one that can’t get your toast the way you like it?
So, then. What do we have? A device with a dial and a place to put a slice of bread. It toasts the bread, as advertised. It gets it the way you like it, unlike the others. It can’t collect crumbs and bugs like the old ones. It’s simple and straightforward and it does exactly what it’s supposed to.
Obviously, what a piece of shit, eh?
Me, I’ve ALWAYS hated getting two slices done at the same time, since by the time I’ve buttered the first slice, the second one isn’t hot enough for the butter to melt. With this one, I can butter one while the next one toasts. Jeeebus, what a horrible appliance. I think I’ll have to shoot myself, it’s so bad…
Pffffft.
Jägermeister called it.
Anyone up for a pool on when the first lawsuit is filed?
What, no wi-fi??
Ah, wiseasses?
I, for some strange, even bizarre, reason, actually suspect that in all the time spent developing this appliance, with hundreds, probably thousands of man-hours spent on it, it’s pret-ty-fucking-unlikely that those who prototyped it, tested it, modified it, tested it again, showed it to others, etc, etc, etc, were actually so goddamned retarded as to not notice what is so obvious to you Young Thomas Edisons.
The inventors also have one or more lawyers – who we can presume are not deaf, dumb or blind – and said lawyers don’t seem to think that product liability exposure is an issue. They’re also dumber and less observant than you, I suppose.
An intelligent person assumes, up front, that the inventor(s) of this item are not idiots nor are they unfamiliar with the ideas of either burnt fingers or lawsuits.
He or she instead hypothesizes that it is far more likely that that issue is not an issue, for one reason or another. That is a far more likely scenario than the inventors missing something so basic and so obvious.
I’m gonna check this out (basically ’cause I want one), but before I do, I will go out on a limb and suggest that the heating surface of the glass is (A) on the inside surface only, and (B) is smaller than the full area of glass, possibly for the exact reason of preventing toasted digits. As an inventor, that’s the way I’d look to do it.
Now I’m gonna find out… hopefully. 🙂
Well, I’m back already, and all I can say is, piss, double shit and extra damn.
It exists only as a concept so far.
So – no lawsuits. But no damn toast, either.
Pffffffft. Twice.
19–clear stuff, if its not glass, is an insulator and I can see good heat and cool touch being possible. I could also see it be able to take just about any size object too==that would increase the functionality quite a bit. Still no reason for it not to be two slice size with a one slice option? Gee, if it did all that, all its missing is the egg cooker on the side.
(Thz–sorry, I meant I had lost track of the discussion and meant no disrespect if I did not respond to your winning argument. If we both lost track at the same time, we’ll have to wait for the next rematch.)
#22 Bobbo – I also meant that I lost track as well because I was finding it hard to know which side of the line I was on! 🙂 Anyway on to the next match!
#19 Jake – The WiFi is an optional extra (dongle) which will enable the Apple iToast to communicate with the Apple iCoolBox. Not that it is necessary but its a cool thing to point out when people are visiting.
Another really really cool feature of the Apple iToast is the glass plates double as a LCD monitor which connects to the Apple Zoolander Air Lapthingy via a IR port. How cool is that? Checking your emails while toasting one piece of bread?
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#17 Three Headed Cat said – “I’ve ALWAYS hated getting two slices done at the same time, since by the time I’ve buttered the first slice, the second one isn’t hot enough for the butter to melt.”
Well you didn’t mention the eggs which are getting cold.
Its all in the planning.
Project: Two pieces of buttered toast and easy over eggs served up warm.
Process:
1/ Get a small pan and plate ready with two eggs and two slices of bread.
2/ Start the gas under the pan on high.
3/ Put the bread in the toaster and start – Medium brown.
4/ Get three pats of butter ready to be deployed.
5/ One pat goes in the heated pan and the other two standby for the toast.
6/ Swirl the butter in the pan and crack the eggs in gently reduce to low heat (You want the egg whites to start to set quickly and the yolk will stay cool which is why the pan was first on high.)
7/ By now the two slices of toast pop out, place each pat on the center of each slice of toast.
8/ The eggs are now ready to flip.
9/ The butter has softened enough to spread on the toast, cut and put on the plate. (Option: the plate could be warmed in the oven before hand)
10/ The eggs are flipped back right way up and put on the plate.
Enjoy 🙂
Can’t tell I worked in manufacturing for 30 years huh?
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I have to remember to re-read everything carefully and not get caught up in the excitement of new toasters. I thought this was available at Target based on the headline “Transparent Toaster Invented”.
So let’s see. I just read an article on here about how america is now just about broke, and now there’s an article about a $75 toaster? I’m just saying…
#26 the answer –
Good point and just where is the iToaster made?
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