Toaster used to recharge gadgets
Butter and jam optional
Most kids are taught not to stick things - aside from bread - into the toaster. But the Toasty Charger’s designer obviously wasn’t, because he’s crafted one with a slot for inserting reachable batteries.
The Toasty Charger: recharge your batteries
The concept toaster is designed for lithium-ion batteries of various sizes. The user simply pops their battery into the slot where the bread would normally go, pull the handle down and wait until the battery pops out, toasted fully recharged.
Details on technical specifications are very limited, but designer Hyun-A Ko said that the toaster has “many terminal pieces” inside so that “different kinds of connectors and batteries” aren’t required.
The three stages of toasting charging
Toasty Charger’s real appeal is in its design, which has obviously been borrowed from Apple. The all-white gadget has a chef’s hat on the front that glows according to the battery charge status.
If it’s not glowing then your battery isn’t charged yet, but if the hat’s glowing brightly then it’s time to reach for the Marmite take it out.
No plans to launch the Toasty Charger have been announced.
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Well, I like it, I get the feeling that AA, AAA and common sizes of that type aren't supported which is a shame. But nice idea, and different, makes a boring process a bit more fun!
talkie toaster?
im still waiting for my chirpy breakfast time companion with a pathalogic interest in all things bread
Perspective?
That bowl of fruit looks awfully small compared with that slice of bread.
With apologies to Frank Sinatra
To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To be better far than you are
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable battery
Is the world full of muppets?
Its a good idea for god's sake.
Why so many gimps moaing that "kids will put batteries in the real toaster dontcha know. So irresponsible."?
How about the following: Dont keep it in the kitchen by the real toaster. If your kid is so thick, then put the real toaster out of reach, or just let darwinian evolution take its course.
Asshats.
