Go Egg Incubator by Autoelex

As you're well aware, we love wacky gadgets, and we love foreign gadgets, and we especially love those foreign gadgets whose translated write-ups give us a chuckle. Well the Go Egg Incubator by Korean manufacturer Autoelex manages to cover all three bases, by promising to provide a "micro computer that is smarter than hens [which] promptly sets up the all necessary conditions." Apparently you can drop any old egg in this incubator, "from quail to duck" they say, and come back in about 21 days to a hatched baby bird of your choice. Besides being well-suited for "bird maniacs," as the company suggests, this device has the added potential of convincing many youngsters to go vegan, when they discover what their McChicken would have grown up to become.

[Via TRFJ and AVing]

[Eric @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

Overclock THAT..

[itan @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

this only makes me want to eat eggs more, chicks look mighty tasty in there own right

[Deputy Doffoos @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

is it USB powered? if not , I'm not in!! >:-|

[alienshards @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

errr...

don't you mean what thier egg McMuffin will grow up to be?

[cuby @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

is it me or is this the weirdest gadget ever written up on this site?

[Jervis @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

this is a Bird flu outbreak waiting to happen

[Michael @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

Is that for hatching or for prepping those almost born duck eggs azns like to eat??? I've bitten into one of those eggs pretty gross.

[Doc @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

the page says it can be used for science experiments?
Oh, poor chicks, what are the kids gonna do with them after they come out? Experience is over, lets throw it away now?

[raindog @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

Too bad there's no price or place to buy it.... a dozen fertilized eggs from my local natural food store would be an awesomely cheap source of live playthings for my precious kitty-wittys. No batteries or wind-up required!

I wonder if it's illegal to let a chicken escape and roam free. I assume that's what would happen to most of these "science experiments".

[Kelley Ritchey @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

I didn't know the egg incubation industry was so big. I was wrong

[Dave @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

In the "Simplified Chinese" version of Engadget, this was categorized under "Food".

[boss sauce @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

raindog-- Brand it as a "Hello Kitty" cat feeding system. Already pink, give it a few decals and ears and it's a winner for X-mas 05!

[Nick @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

Home made Asian bird flu!!

[SASniper @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

Just turn up the heat, and you can go from chick to boiled egg.

[Meredith @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

Psst, the 'wacky gadgets' link is broken - missing an http:// I believe.