Transparent Toaster gives you clear view of bread's crispiness
By Darren Murph 
posted September 3rd 2007 4:55PM
posted September 3rd 2007 4:55PM
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iToast?
No. Not iToast.
Ho-Ly, Bull Dookie!!!
I want one!
that is the coolest toaster ever, costs $300 and still burns your toast :P
And you just stick your finger into the burning glass to get it out?
Mmm.
will the glass become cloudy? How can you clean it? Will bagels fit it?
Obviously you just jam a knife in there to get it out like any other toaster!
I assume it comes with a little spatula to scrap off the burned skin...
this is ancient.
So is your mom! :-p
Pretty, but who'd want to keep that clean?
How about photoshop me some eggs and juice, too.
I wonder if Apples toast well.
Boy, the lawyers will have a field day with this one....
Unless Apple has patented circular, metallic buttons with the power symbol on them, and the act of using silvery metal in a product, I doubt it. It's clearly inspired by Apple, but that's about all they could say. Inspired by != copied from.
what?
It was more a comment on possible safety issues rather than the design itself.
I understand that asking it to toast bagels may be asking a lot, but is it too much to ask that it toasts 2 pieces at the same time?
I prefer my oven
I made a better mousetrap once.
Heh, I like the idea, though I sure hope that glass has some damn good heat dissipation properties, ala Space Shuttle thermal tiles (Which you can hold a torch to for a minute, then touch 5 seconds after turning the torch off)
I was scrolling through engadget really fast when my eye saw what looked like toast, and I did a double take. TOAST?
This thing looks pretty cool though, but like others have said, keeping it clean would be an issue, especially for me, since I put my butter on the toast first and then stick it into a toaster oven.
Love 2 have this in my home but I dont want clean it everytime I use it.
it looks cool I guess
Last year i had to make a toaster as a project for university, the result is the following link. I hope you like it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94C2C1yaQLg
Don't listen to the negative turds on YouTube, most of them will be shop floor grunts all their miserable lives. Maybe a bit strong, but I come across useless people every day who talk-the-talk but have no talent to walk-the-walk. Good on ya, without ideas we are nothing.
Needs moar quick cuts. Jesus, I haven't felt that disoriented since seeing Transformers.
Also I have no idea how it works because you don't actually show toast inside of it until the last 3 seconds.
:o, it's so sexy
Leaving aside the problem of removing the toast afterwards, this is a nice idea with one minor flaw: it doesn't work.
From the link: "Although the glass does not currently get hot enough to toast bread, someday this application may be possible."
Its a nice designer piece but nothing more. I dont see much of the value of toasting it open on the sides since the heat will escape faster that way making it toast longer.
-my 2 cents
thats awesome very cool i might ahve to get one...i wonder how it works?
RTFA: It doesn't.
this is in the same vein as some of the insanely thin espresso machine concepts I've seen recently (eg water, boiled where? high pressure pump? uh huh... waiting for new technology? k...)
looking at the case studies on the inventables site I get the feeling that there are some corporates having away-days at a design consultancy (no, not an innovation consultancy - there's no such thing)... beats proper work, anyway.
i guess now would be a bad time to mention that my toaster oven has allowed me to do this for years and years now?
yeah then why dont you get off the net and carry on with it then turd???
There has to be some tweaks made on this design, 'cause I don't see how a user will be able to take the toast out unless there's a popping thing that's hidden.
But if I were to change this design up a bit, I would enable the front part of the glass to open and close on a hinge, so that way it would be easily accessible.. And to provide saftey around the heating element.. maybe something like Silicone would do to open and close the glass part and provide trim around it as well..
Actually though, is that glass, or something else that can sustain the heating and toasting of bread?..
@Ryan, I think he was trying to hide the fact that it was a toaster... like those really good commercials that don't say what it is until the end.
The design is cool. It seems as if it'll be easier to clean the crumbs. But I kinda wanted to see it in real-time action.
If you goto your mom's house, goto the kitchen, and check out her oven you'll find it also has a glass pane!!! and nobody got sued or died and the world didn't end!! you learn something every day don't you?
Nice concept, won't work well in reality for numerous reasons. I wonder how much moisture that will get released and fog up the glass if the actual heat comes from below?
Best
bread
burner
ever.
Glass doesn't change visually when heated, this is a safety hazard. Wait till junior comes bounding downstairs into the kitchen and touches the toaster not knowing it's burning hot. Watch the lawsuits fly. With a regular toaster at least the outer case is never burning hot.
Does it come with the setting like all other toasters to turn bread into Charcoal? Someone somewhere must love their toast 'carbonated'.
WHAT!!! i want one now!!!!!
May be with that gadget my wife will make, at the end, eatable toasts!
Will you still get electrocuted if you stick a fork in it?
No :), but you'll scratch the screen :(.
Even if this did work, I certainly would hope to toast more than one piece of bread at a time... I certainly eat more than that for breakfast.
What about butter?
Meh.
Toaster Oven >> Toaster
And you all know it!
nice