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Serial Toast Printer Pops Out Up to Six Slices in a Row

Posted: 10 Aug 2012 10:00 AM PDT

[ Filed under Fixtures & in the Appliances category ]

Making more than two pieces of toast most mornings, but hate the clutter of a four-piece machine? This is the device for you.

Othmar Muhlebach created this crafty toast-printing wonder to have a smaller footprint on your counter top, while giving you a fresh look at your freshly-toasted bread.

Each piece of bread is stacked simply along the top (up to a half-dozen or more at a time), then slides through and ejects below, much like the process of a traditional paper printer.

When not in use, the cord conveniently wraps inside a notched space around the base, hugging the inside curve then hiding below the bottom plate. One last thing they could add: a built-in way to slice parts of loafs, so you could feed in larger bits of bread. Maybe in the next iteration.

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Tweet Seat: Outdoor Bench Links Digital + Physical Worlds

Posted: 09 Aug 2012 04:00 PM PDT

[ Filed under Furniture & in the Benches category ]

Our digital and physical lives are often so far separated that we feel as though we live in two different worlds at once. Designer Chris McNicholl’s TweetingSeat aims to forge a connection through a novel interaction method.

The bench sits in a public park, inviting visitors to sit down and enjoy the scenery for a few minutes. It looks much like a regular park bench aside from its blue slat adorned with the blue Twitter bird. Whenever someone sits down, two cameras are activated: one situated in a nearby tree pointed at the bench, and another on the bench looking out at the surrounding area.

Pictures from the cameras are automatically sent to the TweetingSeat’s Twitter feed. The dual snapshots create a strong visual connection between the physical world in which the bench and sitters exist, and the digital world into which the images are sent.