Yesterday morning I ate a waffle!

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Automatic toaster.

And for about five seconds, the toaster toasted, but then, unfortunately, the element kind of melted itself.

(Text invisible toaster)

An electric toaster that pops. No.

What do you like? Dark, rich, hearty roast!

What do you like? Dark, rich, hearty roast!

So there's a picture of my toaster.

Thomas Thwaites How I built a toaster from scratch

What percentage of you actually like a dark, rich, hearty roast?

I'll try and make an electric toaster from scratch.

And said, Hi, I'm trying to make a toaster.

And one time, when he finally got his box of Frosted Flakes back, it was crawling with roaches.

So I thought, okay, I'll try and make an electric toaster from scratch.

I went and bought the cheapest toaster I could find, took it home and was kind of dismayed to discover that, inside this object, which I'd bought for just 3.49 pounds, there were 400 different bits made out of a hundred plus different materials.

Okay, how do you make this rock into components for a toaster?

Every one of you would say, I want a dark, rich, hearty roast.

And for about five seconds, the toaster toasted, but then, unfortunately, the element kind of melted itself.

And the last material I'm going to talk about today is plastic, and, of course, my toaster had to have a plastic case.

Licklider encourages us not to take a toaster and make it Data from Star Trek, but to take a human and make her more capable.

And so this magical transformation is what I was trying to get at with my project, which became known as the Toaster Project.

And, working on the idea that the cheapest electric toaster would also be the simplest to reverse engineer,

Now, the toaster was huge because they used to make toast on open fires, and it took a lot of time and attention.

like an evil blender who tried to chop them up, an evil toaster who tried to kidnap the bread couple, and an evil microwave who tried to melt their friend who was a stick of butter.

We see this especially with product reviews, book reviews, everything from hotels to whether that toaster is a good toaster or not.

If I asked all of you, for example, in this room, what you want in a coffee, you know what you'd say? Every one of you would say, I want a dark, rich, hearty roast.

Perhaps not I am Greek, after all. But do not take Clooney s word for it, either (or Johnson s).

But anyway, I got my suitcase of iron ore and dragged it back to London on the train, and then was faced with the problem Okay, how do you make this rock into components for a toaster?

It takes an entire civilization to build a toaster. Designer Thomas Thwaites found out the hard way, by attempting to build one from scratch mining ore for steel, deriving plastic from oil ... it's frankly amazing he got as far as he got. A parable of our interconnected society, for designers and consumers alike.

There was an egg, a tomato, a head of lettuce and a pumpkin, and they all lived in this refrigerator city, and in one of their adventures they went to a haunted house that was filled with so many dangers like an evil blender who tried to chop them up, an evil toaster who tried to kidnap the bread couple, and an evil microwave who tried to melt their friend who was a stick of butter.