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Burnt toast could soon be a thing of the past thanks to the world’s first transparent toaster. The new concept glass toaster, which lets you see your bread as it browns, is from product developer Inventables. The idea is based on transparent heating glass technology and the idea is that the glass heats up enough to toast the bread.

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.




  1. DavidtheDuke says:

    Good idea! How does it pop out??

  2. TIHZ_HO says:

    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. ;)

    Cheers

  3. Greg Allen says:

    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.

  4. AdmFubar says:

    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???
    Longest URL in DU history!
    check the second last paragraph on the forward page..
    ahhh the good ol’ days when computers were fun…

    [Please use TinyUrl.com for overly long URLs. - ed.]

  5. Jägermeister says:

    Three ways to fit your fingers into it… Real retard friendly toaster…

  6. chuck says:

    Unfortunately it can only make toast with bread that is exactly .16″ thick at one end.

  7. Cursor_ says:

    Ah another useless device for the kitchen junkie.

    Cursor_

  8. michaelwmoss says:

    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

  9. BubbaRay says:

    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.

  10. Curmudgen says:

    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!!!

  11. Tom says:

    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.

  12. dm says:

    Thanks to Dvorak.org/blog, we all know how a sewing machine works. But the toaster is still a mystery!

  13. TIHZ_HO says:

    Get ready to stand in line for a day or two. ;)

    http://tinyurl.com/2d9n22

    Cheers

  14. bobbo says:

    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*)

  15. ... says:

    “…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.

  16. TIHZ_HO says:

    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! ;)

    Cheers

  17. the Three-Headed Cat™ says:

    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.

  18. Phillep says:

    Jägermeister called it.

    Anyone up for a pool on when the first lawsuit is filed?

  19. Jake says:

    What, no wi-fi??

  20. the Three-Headed Cat™ says:

    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. :)



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