subject: Toaster Prints Text, Photos From the Internet onto Your Bread [print this page] Toaster Prints Text, Photos From the Internet onto Your Bread
Many things have appeared on toast: Marmite, Vegemite, jam and even Cylons. Now a designer's invented a toaster that can burn pretty much anything onto your morning slice, including the Techarena news.
If you are the kind of person who rushes around in the morning, but always makes the time for toast, you will love the Scan Toaster printer concept by designer Sung Bae Chang.Detailsare scarce, but we do know that it connects to the internet via USB and is capable of printing images or text on bread using some sort of flexible "module" unitheatedby a wire.
Inside the toaster is a network of toasting "modules", each heated by a hot wire. Each module canmoveby 30 and, once the userselectswhat they want on their toast - excluding a topping, of course - the modules align themselves and burn the appropriate content onto the bread.
The appliance is a finalist in designcompetitionrun bymanufacturerElectrolux and designer Sung Bae Chang said he got the idea whilst - you guessed it - making some toast.
No plans tomanufacturethe toaster on a mass scale havepoppedup yet
Many things have appeared on toast: Marmite, Vegemite, jam and even Cylons. Now a designer's invented a toaster that can burn pretty much anything onto your morning slice, including the Techarena news.
If you are the kind of person who rushes around in the morning, but always makes the time for toast, you will love the Scan Toaster printer concept by designer Sung Bae Chang.Detailsare scarce, but we do know that it connects to the internet via USB and is capable of printing images or text on bread using some sort of flexible "module" unitheatedby a wire.
Inside the toaster is a network of toasting "modules", each heated by a hot wire. Each module canmoveby 30 and, once the userselectswhat they want on their toast - excluding a topping, of course - the modules align themselves and burn the appropriate content onto the bread.
The appliance is a finalist in designcompetitionrun bymanufacturerElectrolux and designer Sung Bae Chang said he got the idea whilst - you guessed it - making some toast.
No plans tomanufacturethe toaster on a mass scale havepoppedup yet
