Messaging toaster burns notes into your breakfast

For being one of the most brilliantly simple electronic devices ever to exist, the humble toaster certainly draws a lot of design attention, and this messaging toaster from Sasha Tseng certainly adds in a feature we never knew we wanted -- until now. We're not 100 percent clear on exactly how it works, but using the supplied stylus to doodle on the top lid of the toaster will result in a scorchmark-and-bread rendering of your masterpiece. Not exactly the most covert way of sending messages to your family, perhaps, but since when has practicality been important in toaster concept design?

[Via Shiny Shiny and Giz]

[Shane Reustle @ Sep 7th 2007 5:26PM]

I think it should be a USB device and work on a timer so every morning, your toast has the latest engadget news!

[MikeG @ Sep 7th 2007 6:49PM]

/signed

You have the best ideas ever!

[Mike D @ Sep 7th 2007 7:17PM]

i'd buy one ..

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Sep 7th 2007 7:53PM]

Even better would be alphabet soup that displayed your email as you are eating it.

[Zach @ Sep 7th 2007 8:21PM]

I like alphabet soup, but with all the spam I see, I just can't imagine eating that much every day

[ooplus @ Sep 9th 2007 5:02AM]

two month ago I made a commercial
for a toaster like this one >_

[Calvin @ Sep 7th 2007 5:28PM]

That is something I would definitely buy. That's an awesome way to personalize your toast, other than by eating it.

[Ken @ Sep 7th 2007 5:30PM]

guess this puts the kabosh on those jebus face toast auctions. now i can buy this and have jebus for breakfast every morning.

Christchex anyone?

[alli @ Sep 7th 2007 7:29PM]

LOL. yea that's what i was thinking too...

Mmmmm Jebus.......

[sean @ Sep 7th 2007 5:34PM]

My first thought would be it's a great way to leave someone a "morning after" message.

They stumble into the kitchen to find some toast with the message "Dear Joan: Thank you for last night. Please pack your crap and get out."

[fernando @ Sep 7th 2007 5:36PM]

Or, by the same token, after a passionate, unforgettable night of making love, you toast the message "Will You Marry Me?" onto the piece of toast the next morning. How can she say no?

[Arjy @ Sep 7th 2007 5:42PM]

Two posts on engadget about toasters in the last week.

[Jonhimslf @ Sep 7th 2007 6:44PM]

Pretty soon they're going to have put up a toaster-free link to engadget for all the people that complain about the amount of coverage toasters are getting.

[elnino2783 @ Sep 7th 2007 5:45PM]

I guess if it was some secret message you could just eat it to dispose of it

[AdvWar @ Sep 7th 2007 5:48PM]

Wow, the item of a thousand uses.......

[Paris K @ Sep 7th 2007 5:51PM]

Wow that's a really thick slice bread.

[Shane Reustle @ Sep 7th 2007 5:53PM]

i was thinking the same thing...

[Constable Odo @ Sep 7th 2007 9:07PM]

It's a common thickness in Japan for breakfast toast. I was rather surprised when I first saw them eating bread that thick. I'd love to make a triple decker cheesesteak sandwich with bread like that. Drool. Slurp.

[Benny @ Sep 7th 2007 5:55PM]

Thickest. Bread. Ever.

[Brandon @ Sep 7th 2007 5:59PM]

It's called Texas Toast

http://iateapie.net/images/brands/texastoast.jpg

[Jypson @ Sep 7th 2007 6:10PM]

But can it reproduce the virgin mary...and cry blood? Yeah I didn't think so, stupid toaster.

[Easty @ Sep 7th 2007 6:14PM]

An obvious place for advertising real estate... Daily dilbert.. or a message from the partner. you have time to butter me up once more.

[Chris C @ Sep 7th 2007 6:20PM]

It's a design. It doesn't work. The designer has NO IDEA how such a thing is going to work, or if it's feasible or even possible.

That's the engineer's job :)

[Ryan Holloway @ Sep 7th 2007 6:25PM]

I could really use the voip phone, I'd upgrade to Skype In!

[turb0d00d @ Sep 7th 2007 6:42PM]

lol wrong entry

[Paris @ Sep 7th 2007 6:46PM]

You could use a voip phone in a toaster that writes messages on your bread?

[ScooterDE @ Sep 7th 2007 8:40PM]

put a voip phone in the toast. It's thick enough.

[Ryan Holloway @ Sep 7th 2007 8:45PM]

I have turrets, leave me alone, snipe piggy bogger. :-p

[Deborah Mahoney @ Sep 7th 2007 6:46PM]

it is so hard to post here, wheew, pretty cool sweeps and a nice site.

[Berk @ Sep 7th 2007 6:51PM]

I'd like to buy one of that

[Steve @ Sep 7th 2007 7:02PM]

I would LOERVE to buy that. You could write one "Butter" One "Cheese" one "Vaseline"

[Luisten @ Sep 7th 2007 7:31PM]

that is one big-ass slice of bread

[Luisten @ Sep 7th 2007 7:33PM]

that is one big-ass slice of bread

[ark_v2 @ Sep 7th 2007 9:09PM]

Oh my, the other concept at least was sexy, this is ugly and useless.

[David Perkins @ Sep 7th 2007 10:21PM]

The next morning, doodle your dick and ask her to butter it.

[ztiger93 @ Sep 7th 2007 10:29PM]

this is just the kind of thing that republicans want us yammering about while they screw up the world. way to go, all of us.

[bosboss @ Sep 7th 2007 10:49PM]

this ancient idea has been done better five years ago:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/03/30/java_toaster_prints_weather_forecast/

[Eric Whitney @ Sep 7th 2007 11:30PM]

Once our robotic friends get a hold of these we will be helpless reicpients of toasted messages and soon be slaves to our vacume cleaners. Eating gleefully out of thier discharge slots. Everything we consume will have some form of instruction on it. Broccoli will be lasered burt "NOT ORGANIC" Bananas will read "Resistance Is Futile".

That said I think I need one.

[the intern @ Sep 8th 2007 12:19AM]

i wonder if a contract written on a piece of toast would be legally binding...

[Tyler @ Sep 8th 2007 12:30AM]

This is how I would fire employees!!!

[Handir @ Sep 8th 2007 1:30AM]

handir must have bluetooth

[XenoX101 @ Sep 8th 2007 3:25AM]

I can already picture it.

Your room mate is making some toast, he goes to the toilet.

The opportunity arrives, you take the stylus and draw something on the toaster.

Moments later, your room mate comes to the realization that he is eating a slice of toast formidably etched with a respectably sized cock & balls.

[Wolfman K 42 @ Sep 8th 2007 1:02PM]

Some one needs to get WiFi on this thing... Can you say ToasterMail??

A lil light on top lets you know if you have any, just make some toast to see what it is...

Might even make you look forward to easting SPAM. ;)

[Generic @ Sep 8th 2007 2:34PM]

so let's see:

a) RSS ticker sandwiches

or

b) "BITE ME"

or better yet

c) This sandwich is taken

[Krishna Patel @ Sep 9th 2007 5:25PM]

"Uhh... I kind of ate my homework..." Just a better excuse? Not quite.

[Jaxon @ Sep 10th 2007 10:26AM]

Holy Virgin Mary Sighting!

[andrew @ Sep 11th 2007 3:41PM]

this would be good for high end restaurants to put their logo onto garlic bread and whatever else