Hasta La Gadget!

A picture speaks a thousand words. It might be hard to discern 6×6 pixel images on your morning toast, but at least you’ll be able to get a headstart on everyone when it comes to the day’s newest images on Google with the help of the Image Toaster.

The Image Toaster basically ‘prints’ (or rather, ‘toasts’) random new images from Google onto your toast. It was created by Dutch designer Scott van Haastrecht for a school project, but it has the potential to be something big.

His toaster is still a prototype and needs to be tethered to a computer to work, although Scott explains that the final version of the toaster should be able to function via Wi-Fi and will only need a power cord to function.

Printing news or the most recent social media feeds on your morning toast? That could be a reality one day.

[Creative Applications via Co.Design via PetaPixel via C|NET]

How many times have you skipped breakfast because you woke up later than you should have? If it’s a figure above zero, then I’d say that’s too many. You could start going to sleep earlier so you can wake up earlier, or you could just get the Hamilton Beach Breakfast Sandwich Maker instead.

It’s the ultimate small appliance that’ll let you cook up an entire breakfast sandwich in just five minutes.

It has various levels where you’re supposed to pop in your fresh ingredients. The top plate toasts your bread of choice, be it a bagel, biscuit, or muffin. The slide-out egg plate comes next, followed by the bottom plate where you can toss in some pre-cooked meat. Leave the sandwich maker for five minutes so it can get cooking, and voila – breakfast is served!

Clean up is a breeze, too, because you can just wipe the non-stick surfaces clean and stick the removable parts into your dishwasher.

The Hamilton Beach Breakfast Sandwich Maker is available now for just $29.99(USD).

[via Gadget Review]

It can be tough to shake the notion that art and technology are conflicting forces — that is, until you’re confronted by a concept that lives at the crossroads of these seemingly dissonant concepts. For this latest episode of the Engadget Show, we set up shop right there, in order to explore what it means when technology itself is a work of art. We’re starting things off at the New Museum on the Bowery in Manhattan, where Tim and Brian will be diving deep into the “Ghosts in the Machine” exhibition, to check out pieces like Stan VanDerBeek’s Movie-Drome, a dome dreamed up in the mid-60s that foresaw a world in which the viewer is bombarded by visual stimuli. We’ll also discuss how the museum is harnessing the power of the web to open its offerings up well beyond its gallery doors.

We speak to the founder and principal players of comedy performance art group Improv Everywhere about the role technology has played in the rise of the group and some of its most famous (and infamous) pranks. As ever, we’re breaking out the Gadget Table to discuss the month’s latest and greatest (and not-so-greatest), including the iPhone 5, Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1, before Brian heads out to the private (annex) library of comedian-turned-deranged-billionaire John Hodgman to discuss how technology is impacting the publishing industry and his upcoming books “That is All” and “The Complete World Knowledge Boxed Set“.

While we’re at it, we’ll be speaking with the producer and director of the classic film Baraka and its newly released spiritual sequel, Samsara and paying a visit to the gang at Breakfast New York, who have worked with the likes of Google and Conan O’Brien to turn advertising into art. All that and the introduction of our latest feature “Ask @hodgman.” Welcome to the new Engadget Show.

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Just a few avenues over from New York’s Penn Station where an old electro-magnetic ticker board displays train arrivals and departures the designers from Breakfast have installed a modern take on the ticker on Harold Square at 6th Avenue and 32nd Street. Watch this video, it’s absolutely hypnotic. More »

Our technology is so advanced that we are now automating expressions. UK bread maker Warburtons recently introduced the Toastie Knife, a prototype self-heating butter knife. If I was Desmond Miles, I’d prefer this over the hidden blade.

The heating element is embedded in the blade itself, so the handle and thus your hand won’t get toasted. Warburtons claims that the blade will heat to a temperature of 41.8ºC (about 107ºF) in under 30 seconds. The temperature was singled out as ideal by “experts”, an elite group of people that specialize in approving stats and numbers that would otherwise be meaningless to promote products. You’re welcome.

Warburtons has not yet decided if it will go ahead with the production of the Toastie Knife. I bet the folks at Brando are just dying to sell this one.

[via Warburtons & Mail Online via Walyou]