You can have your iPhones and iPads and Androids and laptops and smart watches and Google Glass and fitness trackers and wearables. Have it. Take it all away. I only want this magic pancake stacking robot in my life. It’s the only reason we invented technology.
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We’ve probably all made a few pancakes in amusingly shaped blobs, but Nathan Shields takes pancake to a whole new level of art. The illustrator, former math teacher, and stay-at-home dad makes pancakes with his kids that range from Star Wars tributes to portraits of Isaac Newton to animals painted in stunning species-level detail.
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No longer do those wanting to eat healthy at breakfast have to live in fear of the backlash from the grapefruit they’re digging into. This Citrus Sectioner replaces your spoon with a purpose-built contraption that safely and easily removes a wedge from your favorite morning fruit—minus any geysers of blinding juice.
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Forget Jelly Babies. Forget fish fingers and custard. And please, let’s forget the Doctor pinning celery to his jacket. Toast. That’s the new Timelord’s favorite food. Hopefully the 12th Doctor will love toast. But if he doesn’t, here is a piece of plush toast dressed like the 11th Doctor.
You could call this incarnation of the Doctor crusty – even crumbly. It comes from Deviantartist chaoticteapot, who loves a helping of Timelord toast for breakfast. You’ll notice that he has the attire just right, right down to the fez. Best of all, this toasty doctor can be yours for just $28 (USD) over on Etsy.
Now for some reason I want to see his companions as breakfast foods. All on a TARDIS-shaped plate. But that’s just me.
[via Neatorama]
Look, say what you will about McDonald’s
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We’ve been invited to a breakfast with Sundar Pichai, the man with the [Chrome and Android] plan, and we know what you’re dying to find out: will we feast together on bran muffins or jelly donuts? Coffee or orange juice? Kidding aside, we imagine one of the biggest fellas on Google campus just wants to have us over for some tea, so we’re going to be there with our liveblogging hats on, ready to get you all of the latest product announcements and other news at a second’s notice. Perhaps Android 4.3 and the latest Nexus 7? Or is it something else entirely? Will there be dancing? Join us at noon EDT and hit up this link for the action!
Filed under: Announcements, Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile, Google
Most street signs aren’t especially street-savvy when they can’t change with the passing weeks, let alone the moment. Breakfast NY’s new Points sign is much, much smarter. As long as it has an Ethernet or WiFi connection, it can spin its arrows toward locations on demand or as they become relevant, whether it’s the local bar at night or a concert stage in the afternoon. The signage is also aware of what’s happening, not just where: Points can tap into Foursquare, RSS feeds, Twitter and other sources to display trending hotspots, sports scores and other live updates. The curious can experiment with internet-connected demo signs today; Breakfast NY is taking rental requests now, with expectations that Points signs can deploy from July 1st onwards. As for pricing? You’ll have to get a quote. While the company tells us that a days-long rental will likely involve a lower five-digit sum, it expects each order to be at least somewhat unique.
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It’s springtime, at last. People are smiling, showing a little more skin, and your favorite brunch spot has opened its outdoor seating area. But don’t reflexively reach for that Bloody Mary. It’s a new year. It deserves a new cocktail. More »
I’m kind of a dessert purist. For example, I like plain cheesecake – not one that tastes like pumpkins or anything else. And desserts that try to imitate other desserts usually bug me – like cinnamon apple pie flavored yogurt. Blech. If I can’t eat an actual slice of apple pie, why bother? But here’s one rare instance of a sweet treat masquerading as another that I actually approve of.
While this might look like a stack of delicious pancakes, it’s actually a honest-to-goodness cake. It was made by Cindy Reynolds over at Monkey Treats Bakery, who clearly makes treats for humans too. It looks so real that it’s almost impossible to distinguish form a stack of actual pancakes.
I’m so ready to sink my fork into this thing, that I’d even consider having cake for breakfast. You could even put a few strips of bacon on the side. I won’t mind.
The team at Breakfast NY never leaves us hungry when it merges the digital and physical worlds — and this time it’s created something that hits it out of the park for the start of this year’s US baseball season. Here at the Major League Baseball Fan Cave in downtown NYC, the team has just unveiled its space program-inspired Mission Control Center. As creative director and co-founder Andrew Zolty explained, “the idea is try and pull in pretty much everything you can possibly imagine that’s going on during the 2013 MLB season, and do it in a way that feels reminiscent of NASA’s control room: Mission Control.”
The 20-foot-long installation houses two sets of 15 small screens (roughly eight inches each), broken up in the middle (one side for the American League teams and the other for the National League teams) by a large LCD and a consumer-grade webcam. Below the screens you’ll notice a plethora of switches with LEDs, info lights and a trio of odometers. Both sides feature three rows of five screens, each pertaining to one of the 30 MLB teams and their stadiums. At the flick of a switch, the screens display real-time connected data like recent Foursquare check-ins, weather, Facebook likes and Instagrams, along with team stats and facts and more for each individual stadium at once.
Those smaller screens, by the way, are actually physically modded Android-tablets — unfortunately, Breakfast wasn’t at liberty to tell us exactly which kind they are. Essentially, they are all running custom apps, with support from MLB.TV to pull real-time, live streams from each stadium in the league. In total, we’re told that 13 APIs and seven languages of software work in conjunction to makeup the Control Center. The setup will also allow players visiting the Cave to have live chats with with roughly 10 fans at a time who participate from MLB’s site (sort of like Google+) — of course, the chats allow an essentially unlimited number of spectators. Curious for more of the nitty gritty? Join us past the break.
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