At least this will make some news stories easier to digest!!

Will it be able to put Paris on my toast, think of the fun!!

Otherwise it goes cold while you read the news or you go straight for the butter and marmalade which will obscure the text. I think I'll stick with the paper thanks.

google for java toaster weather

still, this might be next best thing to sliced bread!

It's been done before...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1264205.stm

and also in fact

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/03/30/java_toaster_prints_weather_forecast/

...still think it's a rubbish idea though!

And I want it firewire powered.

I'm actually enougth of a geek that I WOULD by this.

This NEEDS to be mass produced!

to read the news through butter and Marmite!

Paris cos I bet she likes Marmite.

Efros

Do you need special toast to burn in the highest resolution?

How many spm can it do?

Does it duplex?

Oh I must have one!

Can we start a Reg Petition to force electrolux to manufacture this.

that toasted news is at least a couple of minutes of reading.

<--toasty

is a USB microwave

Presumably on a slow news day you just get a piece of bread.

Also, wouldn't the toast be cold by the time you have read the news when it comes to actually eating it?

Although I suppose it does make it easier to burn a crude image of Jesus or the Virgin Mary onto it, for a quick sale on eBay.

Then when the bit on the side emails me, I can eat the evidence?

Or use the device for a daily pr0n fix!

...Talky Toaster, all is forgiven.

Getting my coat because endless references to cult comedy classics was old before Python made their first film...

I wonder how many virgin marys and jesuses you could sell on ebay before the naturally gullible religious nuts catch on.

How long until there is malware that will put "v1agra" adverts on the toast instead of my daily news?

I for one will still welcome our toast messaging overloards. We need more computer connected kitchen appliances.

On that note, where the hell is my networked coffee maker? I want one! (no puns about a java interface please.)

would you like a toasted tea-cake?

since when has a slice of toast - however it is marked - been accompanied by two finely sliced bits of orange pepper?

yours,

first time poster

keebo

reading - top down

toast eating - bottom up

So I guess it's best to print in two halves

How does one distinguish between a picture from the morning news and, say, an apocalyptic message from God heralding one's imminent doom? After all, as regulars here know, toast is a preferred medium of divine revelation.

Not really such a hot idea is it? I mean newsprint, for example, is mostly white. That means that if you printed news on it, you'd basically be eating mostly un-toasted bread. If it's been in the fridge it could even still be decidedly chilly.

The examples in the picture show this quite clearly. Loads of cold, stodgy white bread in between the rather small interesting bits. Not exactly what you want to underpin your Oxford marmalade at breakfast, now is it?

FAIL.

There are on consideration a few pitfalls I can see which would make me not want this is, but I'm sure they could be resolved!

1) It only seems to do 1 slice at a time :/

2) If it's a busy news day I'm gonna need alot of bread

3) It would need a media size detection feature so as to work out that I have instead toasted a waffle!

Also would this have a duplex option?

Too busy makin' the world work to have fun you joyless admins.

Not to mention the pot of cream..! Perhaps it's a delicacy somewhere on Earth...

Red: Raspberry

Green: Kiwi fruit

Blue: Blueberry

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/cnctoast includes pictures and video of their device in action.

Could you make a flick-book animation from an entire loaf though?

...can now eat their words.

The internet is not used for news.....

It's the toaster that lets you have a strumpet on your morning crumpet.

It's the raincoat with sticky sleeves please....

"Sorry kids, your dad's gone and forgotten to switch printers again and the holiday snaps are all on wholemeal."

Spreading jam on parts of Paris (Hilton that is)

yum!

Paris - because I'd like to see her all buttered up and covered in Marmite.

Does it talk?

On one side of the toast print the words "Butter the other side". Then, on the other side, print the words "Butter the other side".

Now, drop the toast on the floor. Which way up does it land?

Mine's the one with the butter stain down the front.

....I received the 'toastvertisement' "Are you having problems with the size of your slice?"

Spam on toast, anyone?

OK, I tried, right???

wow can you imagine this "branded" with cartoon of the day something like Far Side. It would sell like hot cakes. Every Starbucks in the world would buy one. Really hope this makes it onto the high street, what a xmas present, way better than socks. Electrolux, make this before Apple do !