Cinder Block + Rebar + Wood Plank = Toaster

Adi Zaffran’s design is simple but elegant. It’s probably dangerous, too. But if you want to create a functional toaster using as few parts as possible, this would be the way to do it.

Link -via Gizmodo | Zaffran’s Website

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A Toaster Made of 2,500 Pieces of Bread

Your eyes don’t deceive you – that is a giant toaster made of toast. Artists Ingrid Falk and Gustavo Aguerre, AKA FA+, created a huge mural using 2,500 pieces of bread heated at various lengths of time in the toaster to produce the color variation needed to represent the appliance. It took them two days and the help of a bunch of their toaster-owning friends.

Link via DBlog

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Toaster Towel

Tired of the old, ugly toaster in your kitchen? Here’s a new concept design that will make your metal toaster throw in the towel. Burcu Bag, Amalia Monica and Vinay Raj Somashekar has created a super-flexible toasting device called "Halo" that uses a sheet of heating element to do its job.

Weird? Well, if you think about it, electric sleeping blanket works pretty much the same way, right? Link

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VCR Toaster

Inspired by this scene from the BBC show The Young Ones, the how-to blog Instructables turned an old VCR into a functional toaster. It even prints “VHS” on the face of every piece of bread toasted. Video at the link.

Link via Geek Crafts | Image: Instructables

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Smelting Iron in a Microwave

Artist Thomas Thwaites is trying to build a toaster from scratch from the original raw materials — which he mined himself. Here is a video about his efforts to smelt iron ore at home. He’s doing so as a reflection upon a line from Douglas Adams’ novel Mostly Harmless: “Left to his own devices he couldn’t build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.”

Link via Ace of Spades

Official Website

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Toasty Charger

There’s no confusion as to when your battery is done chargin’ if you use this Toasty Charger by Hyun-A Ko. The concept design even has a handy dandy color coded LED light to let you know that your battery is being toasted, … er charged: Link by Design Milk

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