Adi Zafran made his toaster out of concrete blocks and rebar. He writes that he built it because pita bread is a staple food for him. Oh, I get it: It's like a little brick oven.

Who doesn't love toast? I don't want to hear it! It's taking bread to another level. But sometimes bread doesn't toast evenly! This Roastie Toaster is a concept design by Mateusz Glówka that not only has a lovely see through spherical body but also has rotating heating elements (those metal beams) that give your bread…

In 2008, designer Thomas Thwaites decided to build a toaster from scratch-and not the "from scratch" that would land him in Home Depot for a couple of hours. He was interested in the seemingly magical process that turns what we pull out of the earth into the stuff that litters our houses. So Thwaites decided to take on…

Good design is the art (and science) of turning the mundane into the magnificent. Below is an assortment of meticulously designed (and, of course, awesome looking) objects for the friend whose home is a little lacking in the aesthetics department.

This is Anne Lindeboom. She was born in 1920 and died in 1984. Now, she is a toaster. Or better said, her ashes are.

This is coming from the girl who went nuts over a self-stirring coffee cup, but a see-through toaster is abso-freakin'-lutely brilliant. No more burnt toast or kitchen fires since I can see when the bread is perfectly oh-so-yummy-golden-brown.

Bodum's double-walled glasses are a personal favorite, and their French press is a solid buy, too. But this rubber-skinned toaster?

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and how many of you drive to work each morning without any pizza in your stomach? This travesty shall be amended!

The internet loves the toaster. Why? Because it makes toast...which reminds us of breakfast...which reminds us of bacon. So, it is only fitting that we wish it well on its 100th birthday.

All we really want out of life is toasty perfection: Crispy but chewy, brown and beautiful. Despite the super glossy designs, it surprises me how much the future of toast works just like now. [Yanko]