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Oh! Super Toaster!
An anonymous reader writes "Japanese company Neutral KK has developed a Super Toaster. Not only does it toast your bread with infrared beams, it actually slices the loaf of bread for you. For a price tag of around $10,000US, that makes it about the most expensive toaster in the world."
It had better run linux.
Have people gotten so lazy that they cannot slice their own bread?
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Then try Intellitoast!
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MMMMMMMM... Toast!
Create. Destroy. Enjoy.
But does it run NetBSD?
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My love for you is like a $10,000 toaster.
Does it support wheat bread? I don't care for white bread much.
it has a bagel button, a reheat button, a defrost button, and its made of stainless steel. All for the low price of $30! No it wont slice my bread, but i buy my bread presliced anyways!
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This toaster is the greatest invention since sliced bread.
...This is!
The CB App. What's your 20?
Well considering my regular sliced bread usually costed around $ .99. I figure even after buying a deluxe $20 toaster, I can still buy 10,081 loaves before I match what I would spend on this thing.
...does it run a Flying Computers screensaver or have embedded wings?
Hmmm two toasters....personal sandcrawler....two toasters....personal sandcrawler. Tough choice.
But this won't be cheap. From the link in TFA: The price is estimated at around 1.1 million yen (~$10,000) and goes on the market in April. Target market are hotels and restaurants.
It even suggests you find a normal toaster. :)
This flies in the face of science.
You know, somewhere this is some poor marketing manager who keeps saying, "IT'S NOT JUST A TOASTER!" Meanwhile places like slashtdot are posting, "its a $10k toaster!"
Call me uninformed, but don't ALL toasters use infrared beams? Heat some high resistance metal up with electrical current, blackbody radiation puts its peak output in the infrared range?
I wonder if you could use the beam from the Super Toaster to blind pilots of passing planes....
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put a down payment on this.
I'll sell you mine for 10,001 dollars!
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Yep. $10k goes a long way to buying an awful lot of fresh baked bread. You could probably even swing a Bread Maker;-)
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I for one welcome our new bread-reslicing overlords.
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krog was right then?
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Then buy the O'Reilly book Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks. It has instructions on how to make an Internet Ready Toaster
Yummy.. take a byte of that.
It doesnt seem to use a LASER to cut the bread yet ;p
:)
Get back to me then
The bread says TOAAAAAST.
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Man, is Powdered Toast Man gonna be pissed.
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If you have that kind of money to throw away, you can afford your own French Chef, preferably one who's female and walks around in her underwear. What is WITH the Japanese anyway?
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And then you combine it with a Japanese toilet that wipes your ass for you and you'll never need to leave the bathroom in the morning.
- Urinal Cake ($30,000)
- Anal Wart Cream ($50,000)
- Vibrating {male gental} ($100,000)
Why, those clever japanese, that's whom!
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I'm reminded of the sophisticated -- and useless -- kitchen gadgets in Terry Gilliam's Brazil . A movie every techie should sit through at least once before being allowed to design anything.
I want the Hello Kitty Ferrari!!!
Very kawaii. Very cool. Must have.
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Imagine all the people...
...it sounds like it runs an unlimited-client Windows server.
Doesn't *every* toaster use infrared beams to toast bread?
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
...and nobody is quoting Red Dwarf? What's wrong with you people?
So now that we have a better toaster, where's my better mousetrap?
My question is this: What happens to all the bread? Where does it go?
Chuckle chuckle snort
Finally, something that can meet Longhorn's specifications...
...it should write original poetry on each slice with a laser. Maybe toast haiku:
Waking on sunrise
Bread warms the still morning air.
My nose breathes delight.
For $10,000 I can pay my neighbor to come over everyday for the rest of my life and make toast for me. And he won't break. I hope.
When does it become Talkie Toaster?
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we like this little gem: http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/shopping/produc t/detailmain.jsp?itemID=10558&itemType=PRODUCT&RS= 1&keyword=toaster
Got this from my rich sister for Christmas. Woot!
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Target market are hotels and restaurants.
I'm working in a plant (factory to some of you). I could point to any number of things and call them "$80,000 overhead lamps", "million dollar air conditioners" (well, the Mercedes plant is air conditioned; you just have to sweat in the Hyundai plant), and so forth.
But I don't go calling the media about it.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
it sure does seem like a waste to throw away the other 14 pieces of toast when I had only wanted 2.
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I only want it if it talks like Talkie!
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...to have them remove the stupid picture on the side before they ship it to you?
if this is just about the most expensive toaster in the world, just what is?
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They should intedgrate it with a bread maker, so it makes you a loaf of bread, cuts it then toasts it for you.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
For a price tag of around $10,000US, that makes it about the most expensive toaster in the world, shattering the record of $900, set by the 3.2GHz Intel Pentium 4
Microsoft also tried to build one. Version 1 never worked. Version 2 frequently crashed the toast. It wasn't until Version 3 that it successful toasted eyes. After a marketing-driven name change, it became the Windows Media Player we all know and love.
...when making any consumer electronics device.
for 10K, I want it to send an SNMP trap when my toast is ready.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
No wireless. Less space than a breadbox. Lame.
that thing had better give knowledge with the toast.
LK
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So this guy finds a page that includes a pink Hello Kitty Ferrari, a toaster, and a personal sand crawler and he decides that slashdotters would be interested in the toaster?!? For the $$$ I'd take the crawler over two toasters any day.
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But does it run Linux? :)
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
Does it make you coffee? Well, it should for 10k...
Surely the juxtaposition of this story with the BSGng one was not accidental?
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It better butter my bread too!!
I have to supply the bread too? Pfft..no way.
you insensitive clod!!!
yes, I know you can get gluten free bread, but it's expensive and it tastes foul.
...the Toast Marketing Board!
It's a cobalt blue KitchenAid toaster with bagel button. I'll happily sell it to anyone for $15,000.
It doesn't slice bread.
If someone DOES buy it (Steve Jobs, are you listening?) I will use the funds to develop a new Mac OS X app for independent filmmakers.
If it can't pull an IP, I don't want it. What good is it if I can't check up on it from work? Or better yet an RSS syndication so I can just look at my aggrigator.
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It's from Japan, everyone should have just stopped asking why at this point. It's the land of giant robots, worshiping a cartoon kitty, everything small and pink. And no product is made by a company that doesn't end with "... Heavy Industries"
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
... is it SNMP manageable?
Because I need something to go with my coffee maker.
10000 US dollars, who would buy it?!
OH BOY! MY REGULAR TOASTER DOESNT DO THAT! It uses old fasioned radient heat energy! Infrared beams now! Yay! High-tech shit!
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It's just a glorified android.
Yes, people, at least in the US are that lazy. And they fail to realize that break should never be sliced. Bread is always broken, which most of Europe understands. That way if you don't eat all your bread you can give the remainder to the beggars outside your door. Of course we don't have beggars very often, but you should be ready just in case.
If anyone is coming to North America from Europe (and elsewhere?), bring your own bread, you can't get anything worth it in the US. (IF you drink tea, bring that too) If you are going to move over to this side of the pond get someone to teach you how to make bread. We have lots of good foods here, but bread is not one.
Its sad, in the US it is rare to go to a church that knows what it means to break bread. I've seen lots of different interpretations of it, from everyone getting a (small) slice, to everyone getting a "cracker" (I suspect this is a type of Jewish unleavened bread so I can't fault that part even though it wasn't passover) that is audibly broken in half when the preach tells about Jesus breaking bread. That is my rant for the day, I hope you enjoyed it.
I'm wondering how exactly it slices the bread.
What does this have to do with KK.Null?
A link to "Find a normal toaster" on the page, describing Nikkei news about this commerical product is especially cute :) :)
As for the infrared ray toasting... well... that's pretty much standard, unless someone actually makes toasts via Dumb Toaster Called Skillet
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What? Didn't they wisely have him beheaded?
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About? What is there anything else even close?
If you're going to buy ridiculous toasters, you should get either this, or this
Linux, someone asked?
Nahhhh, embedded WinDoze. That's why it occasionally gives you blue toast.
mark "and in shadow letters, 'abort...'"
...it meets Defense Department contracting requirements. Any guesses on how many weapons platforms will include this all-purpose item?