Gizmodo: breakfast

The Ultimate Breakfast Machine Is Complete!

Mark Wilson — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:40:00 EDT

Earlier this month, designer Yuri Suzuki called for help to create a Pee Wee Hermanesque breakfast machine. Now, the heavenly contraption is done. Here's a rundown of the machine (not in English, but eggs and toast are pretty universal):

The completed machine assembled a breakfast of an omelet, toast with jam, coffee and orange juice that was served all day to visitors of the Platform21 show in Amsterdam. But allow us to be the first jerks to say, wait, no bacon? [Platform21 via designboom via gearfuse]

Designer Wants Your Help To Build a Rube Goldberg Breakfast Machine

Sean Fallon — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:00:00 EDT

Starting today, Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki will be soliciting help from visitors to the Platform21 show in Amsterdam to develop a working Rube Goldberg breakfast machine.

Apparently, the machine will utilize recycled Platform21 projects to complete tasks like "frying eggs, juicing oranges, brewing coffee, making toast, and serving it all on a plate with jam, meat and cheese." With each passing day, the machine will evolve and take on new tasks—adding dishes to the breakfast menu. Sounds delicious, but will it be able to compete with Pee Wee's technology?

[Platform21 via Designboom]

Wake Up Alarm Ends Your Slumber With a Well-Rounded Breakfast

Jack Loftus — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:00:00 EDT

Some French designers have created an alarm clock that changes the alarm clock dynamic in an interesting new way. Now, instead of slamming down on the snooze button, you'll get a handful of OJ.

The design is pretty simple. You set the alarm, then you make you breakfast selections, and go to sleep. When you wake up, you'll have some toast, water or juice at the ready. Provided you haven't knocked everything over with your arm after a failed attempt to find the off button. [Yanko Design]

Designer Breakfast Wares Turn Your Morning Routine Into a Game

John Herrman — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:40:00 EDT

Designer Ivo Vos has assembled in "The Brunch" a routine-ruining set of kitchen accessories. It really reminds you to never take anything for granted, if you assume "anything" to mean "toast" and "coffee." We've seen a projectile toaster before, but it was more of a tool of force than of precision toastmanship. Some of the other concepts in the gallery at the source link seem an awful lot like obsessive compulsive tools (a saw box for bread?) but I wouldn't kick any of them out of my kitchen. [Yanko]

Ceramic Kitchen Radio Is Good with Morning Coffee

Jesus Diaz — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:40:00 EDT

This Ceramic Kitchen Radio is so cute and simple that is worthy of Dieter Rams. Easy to clean, easy to transport, and easy to use: Just turn the the lid to tune into your favorite station. And it will go perfectly with your morning china:

[Agata Norkroos via Mocoloco]

Toast Mattress Perfect For Hot, Buttery Afternoon Delights

Jack Loftus — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EDT

Sure, Wilson, there is plenty of information out there today on flat toasters, but what about mattresses that look like toast? You didn't consider that, did you? Well, worry not, because I'm here to serve up this toasty, delectable looking 6' by 7' Inflatable Toast Mattress to top off our crispy brunch coverage for the day. Don't let the looks fool you though. Since this toast is made of rubber, not wheat, it is more for the sleepy, not the hungry. Sleeping with a knife and butter is optional but not recommended, since the Inflatable Toast Mattress retails for $170. [Archie McPhee via Fabulist]

Kahva Coffee Maker Design Is Classy, Glassy

AddyDugdale — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:40:20 EDT

Lina Fischer's coffee maker design is scrumptious and works rather like an espresso maker would, but is better looking (although less iconic than those little moka pots caffeine heads go bubbly over). It comes with its own induction-powered table station, but what really sets the Kahva apart from other coffee makers is what happens to the Joe when it's brewed.

As the water heats, the rising air pressure makes it flow upwards from the glass water chamber into the metal brewing unit. Once the coffee is ready, take it off the heat and the coffee will return through a filter into the Kahva's glass bottom via a vacuum that has been created by the cooling of the coffee maker. To pour, simply turn the grip and let the coffee flow. [Yanko]

Cure Your RSI with Eggs and a Side of Sausage

Sean Fallon — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:20:10 EST

Repetitive stress injuries are a dead serious issue people. And to help alleviate your pain, you need a serious solution. Fortunately, some compassionate soul has developed just such a solution in these sausage and egg themed wrist rests. In addition to their ergonomic benefits, these rests also remind you that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Available for around $18. [Product Page via TFTS via Uberreview]

Quaker Oats Working on an Oatmeal-Making Alarm Clock

Adam Frucci — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:10:00 EST

The brilliant minds at Quaker Oats are currently hard at work on an alarm clock that'll prepare a steaming bowl of oatmeal for you just as it wakes you up. Containing an insulated milk container, a clock and a heater, it's got all the necessary equipment to make sure you stave off hunger with some hearty oats before work. Also, uh, diabeetus. That's all I've got; it's Friday afternoon, people, and I spent too much time on the retarded image you see to the left. Take what you can get. [Daily Record via Gadget Lab]

Breakfast Bike Tray Spells Death Wish

Jason Chen — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:00:29 EST

Eating while driving is inadvisable, but at least you have a bunch of "car" between you and the thing you hit. Not so when you're on a bicycle, which is why this BreakFast tray—which holds your breakfast AND has a slot for a cup—is probably a bad idea. Sure, if you can manage to balance yourself, pedal, chew and read a newspaper at the same time, then you might not kill yourself while using this BreakFast tray. But if you're like any of the bike riders we've seen around Giz HQ, you're just asking for a free ambulance ride (that you actually have to pay for later). [Produktdesign via Wired via Dvice]

Batter Blaster Spews Canned Pancakes Like They're Easy Cheese

Charlie White — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:15:42 EDT

Pancakes are a pain in the ass to make, but not any more with Batter Blaster. Just spray this organic pancake goo onto a hot skillet and your steamy breakfast is just a couple of minutes away, bacon not included. If you don't mind using ~~Cheez Whiz~~ Easy Cheese in its spray can, this looks like just about the same concept except it's pancake slime instead of orange cheesy crud. One problem we see right away, though, is there are just eight servings per can. You know how that goes with serving numbers on packages—if it says the package will serve 8, that's only true if seven people aren't eating. For an even easier battered breakfast experience, you could just skip all this canned goodness and pop a couple of Eggos in the toaster. [Batter Blaster, via Strange New Products]

LCD Display Krups Toaster is Sleek and Makes Toast

AddyDugdale — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:07:23 EDT

Krups seems to have come up with the master-toaster's toaster. The TT6190 can do all kinds of everything to your buns, as well lighting up your kitchen and seducing your wife. For $60, what else can this baby do? There's a defrost option, which means no burnt corners and frozen center when you put your bread straight in from the freezer, and eight different toasting options—even bagels are catered for.

The brushed steel exterior is cool to the touch (why does that sound like something from Danielle Steele?) and there's a cancel button if you think you're giving your bread the wrong treatment. Oh, and there's no dicing with death as you stick the knife down the slot in search for that dwarf piece of toast, as there's a special high-lift toasting lever. My only complaint is that the TT6190 doesn't have four slots, because I'm a greedy girl who can woof eight slices in one sitting.

Krups lands either a toaster or UFO in your kitchen [Sci-Fi Tech]

Breakfix Cereal Dispenser

Travis Hudson — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:40:05 EDT

This is another one of the great gadgets offered by the folks at Skymall. It's a device that dispenses a perfected portioned bowl of cereal every time. No longer will you have to deal with that box of cereal and keeping the bag sealed with clips and whatnot. Just load up the Breakfix with your cereal of choice and it can dispense a bowl's worth with a simple push of a button. It operates off of batteries, which baffles me because aren't devices like this supposed to be all mechanical? Oh well, no more Lucky Charms overdoses for me! Video demonstration after the jump. $80.

The Keyboard Waffle Iron

Adam Frucci — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:20:00 EDT

Because breakfast isn't nerdy enough, I present to you the Keyboard Waffle Iron. There's really nothing else to be said about this wonder of modern technology, but I invite you to make your best keyboard/waffle puns in comments. Come on, let's see what you've got. –Adam Frucci

Chris Dimino [via Treehugger]

Automated Waffle Machine: An Important Part of a Pee-Wee Breakfast

Mark Wilson — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:05:58 EDT

Maybe it's the Rube Goldberg fan in me, but I always prefer complicated devices to simple solutions—at least with my embedded flash videos.

Here is a ~~fully~~ mostly automated waffle machine. It's powered by a 4 liter valve pressure system and the occasional low-powered nudge.

If your co-worker/cohabitants don't know what a dork you are (impossible), you might want to turn down the audio. Because there is some serious geek giggling going on.

Automatic Waffle-Machine - Click here for the most popular videos Told you. – Mark Wilson

Fully Automated Waffle Machine [via digg]

Breakfast Art Toaster Warms Your Soul

Jason Chen — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:45:56 EST

Fresh off our Toaster Deathmatch 2K6, we bring you this Breakfast-Art Image Toaster. Sure, it looks like any old toaster you could get as a wedding present (and then promptly return for booze money), but this one draws things on your toast!

Four separate image designs—a sun, a cup of coffee, a smiley face or a birthday cake. You know what? As jaded as we've become over cutesy gadgets, this thing's pretty great. We're buying these as gifts for everybody this Xmas. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Brookstone via Coolest Gadgets]

Omelet/Egg Poacher Pan

gizmodo.com — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:24:33 EDT

Got the game to get someone to come home with you, but not the skills to seal the deal by making them breakfast in the morning? This double compartment hinged non-stick pan makes omelet folding a no-brainer (Wolfgang Puck has a nice recipe to get you started), and the three cup insert makes it just as easy to poach eggs.

Omelet/Egg Poacher Pan] [The Home Marketplace, via Kitchen Contraptions]

Toast Soldier Cutting Machine (??)

Travis Hudson — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:38:43 EDT

It seems as though the European electronics job market is a little weak. Mike Minton, an electronics engineer turned entrepreneur has made a nice little invention to assist him in creating toast soldiers. What the hell is a toast soldier you ask? It's okay I had to research it too, a toast soldier is a slab of toast that is dunked into a soft-boiled egg. Minton was sick of the time consuming process of manually cutting the toast. Minton's perfect soldier cutter cuts each piece of toast into 22mm even width strips of toasted goodness. Look for Sony's knock-off ToastMan with proprietary ToastItUpGood technology.

Boiled egg fan finds the way to make perfect toast soldiers [Telegraph]