Keyboard waffle iron cooks up your favorite peripheral
By Darren Murph 
posted May 3rd 2007 9:25AM
posted May 3rd 2007 9:25AM
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A part of this balanced workstation.
What's the pre-order contact information?
First: This is awesome and i want one.
Second: Has anyone else noticed that the top of the waffle iron pictured is upside down? It doesnt match the imprint on the waffle.
Ya, it looks like they just set one of the finished waffles in place for the picture - but didn't really pay attention to orientation.
Oh... and I want one. This is something that might do well on a site like Thinkgeek.com. Or at least, those types of sites would be good places to sell it.
I just cancelled my order for the Optimus keyboard.
Now I'm on the waiting list for this thing of beauty.
Why has this not been mass-produced sooner? I want one. Now. =)
That is pure awesomeness. It should put the letters in there too.
Sign me up for one. NOW!
If I were buying a waffle maker, it would be this one.
Let me know when it's USB.
Dang it, I'm already hungry as it is! Mmmm, this looks freakin' sweet, lol.
This would be perfect for an internet cafe on a breakfast menu!
I want the wireless version asap
Well I like waffles...
and I like keyboards...
It was only a matter of time before someone combined the two into one.
I tried something similar with my mousepad-pancake but it never caught on.
But does it run Linux?
It CG, folks. This thing doesn't exist. That explains why you can't get one, and why it appears that the waffle in the iron doesn't match the pattern of the iron. The butter really gives it away.
Oh, and by the way, if I had this, I'd make 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0 waffles.
Caps-Lock is there, thank god. But what about CTRL and ALT?
I want to melt an actual keyboard in one.
getting one asap
I'll wait for one with function keys. I can't keep down a waffle without em.
I'll wait for Eggo to come out with a frozen version.
Finger food! HA!
This reminds me of the "Parable of the Object-Oriented Toaster!" Google it and enjoy.
I cant wait for thinkgeek to stock these
mmm...
CTRL - ALT - DELicious
(credit to Spybreak over @ gizmodo commenting on the same story)
(i know they are competing blogs, but puns are universal)
(just thought you'd appreciate it)
Well, I went and read the article... it's probably never going into production, it's a Visual Arts project, probably a CG project. An awesome idea and I hope he got an A+, but unless one of us wants to make it... it's not going into production anytime real soon, heh. Actually I'm not 100% sold that it's just CG and not a physical mock-up... the butter is not a dead give away, plastic mock-ups are often used in place of food which could melt, spoil, or curdle under photo lamps. (like using elmer's glue instead of real milk when making cereal commercials). If it is CG, it's very convincing.
One thing that bugs me about the article though:
"Designed by Chris Dimino as part of a group exhibit for the School of Visual Arts, the typewriter iron represents the best of reinvention: an obsolete product, minimally modified, is given a completely new function."
What obsolete product are they referring to? The keyboard or the waffle iron? Since when are either obsolete and what, exactly, were they replaced with? I'm still using a keyboard... and if I had one, I'd be using a waffle iron... (if this thing were real, I'd buy it! As is, I'm stuck with pancakes for now).