The brilliant Garfield Minus Garfield features classic Garfield cartoons that have been edited to remove the feline protagonist. The results are fascinating and wonderful, as you can see in the panel below.
Artist Joe Alterio has a project called Robots and Monsters, wherein he will create an illustrated robot or monster based on the three words you provide him. He then donates his $50 fee to the EFF (”like ACLU with computers”), and you get to keep the picture. Here’s one of my favorites: “Cute, bulldog, toast”. You can view the whole menagerie on Flickr.
What do you get when you shoehorn a classic Nintendo NES video game console into a toaster? The Nintoaster! Insert the game cartridges like bread. The lever acts as the on/off switch. Orange LEDs cause the insides to glow like heating elements. Mmmm, nintoasty.
This toaster concept by Sung Bae Chang is able to download images and documents from the internet and print them on your toast. Just give it the RSS feed to Dr. Toast’s Amazing World of Toast for a perfectly meta techno-breakfast!
Did you know there is an official Guinness world record for “Highest Popping Toaster”? Well, meet the new record holder - the CO2 gas powered “Moaster“. An account of the successful record-breaking attempt can be found at Digital Lifestyles. And while the folks at Guinness recorded the trajectory at just 8.5 feet, the video shows that it actually appears to go several stories higher than that.
Here’s one for all the sci-fi geeks out there - a toaster that sears the image of a Cylon into your toast! What a great way to start the day! Courtesy of the Sci Fi Channel.
FilmThreat.com reviews this 10-minute gem from Neverthought Films:
“The Toaster That Toasted The Golden Toast” actually isn’t as serious a film as the name implies, which is a pretty telling statement.
In this absurd 10-minute short by writer/director/producer Danny Bourque (a University of New Orleans student filmmaker), two slackers stumble upon a magical toaster while shopping in a thrift store. The toaster, which has the power to turn any bread, muffin or bagel into gold, is the store’s prized possession - it was not intended for purchase.
The guys who acquired the toaster, upon realizing their good fortune, immediately begin buying bulk quantities of white bread. The irritated shopkeeper discovers it was sold by accident and sends out a devastating pair of henchmen (one kung fu master, one sumo wrestler) to reclaim it.
The jewel of the movie is a silly chase scene and dramatic rooftop fight sequence. While certainly not the only rooftop fight scene in motion picture history, the climax in “The Toaster That Toasted The Golden Toast” may in fact be the only one that prominently involves a toaster in the action. It’s a wonderfully shot scene, full of quick cuts and epic brawling that would make Chuck Norris proud.
The film even drops a lesson at the end as the shopkeeper, a petite but powerful woman, reminds her rivals that with great power comes great responsibility.
Bizarre? Sure. Funny? Yep. And it goes well with butter, margarine or jam.
An anonymous reader sent me this link to a video titled “My Incredibly Cool Toaster“. It is truly a thing of beauty. The bread is brought gracefully into the machine’s warm belly, then two gleaming chrome doors come gliding in silently from the sides to create an evanescent toasting sanctuary. The video’s accompanying soundtrack is “The Blue Danube Waltz” by Johann Strauss Jr., which evokes the famous space station rendezvous scene from Stanley Kubrik’s “2001: A Space Odyssey“.
This undoubtedly is how toast will be made by our future benevolent robot overlords.
This heated glass toaster promises to eliminate under or overdone toast. Too bad it’s only a concept design for now!
You should probably be listening to song #0296 as you ponder the implications of this technology.
The modern toaster takes an average of 141 seconds to make toast. I personally like to make use of this time to close my eyes, breathe deeply of the gently wafting aroma, perhaps compose a new toast haiku or two. But if you’re the busy high-powered executive type for whom an extra 90 seconds means just enough time to cancel the office Christmas party or to fire an underperforming subordinate or two, this Turbo Toaster boasts toast in under a minute by blowing superheated air onto that bewildered slice from two directions at once. Then you can gobble down your toast and conquer the world! Huzzah!
