Web-savvy toaster prints images on your daily bread

What do you get when you cross a toaster and the Internet? A random image from the Internet printed on your slice of bread, of course.

 

That's the idea behind the Image Toaster, which Scott van Haastrecht built as a project for a Creative Technology course.

Super Mega Mega Toaster from Scott van Haastrecht on Vimeo.

 

"The Image Toaster will search the Internet for images related to the day's date and will toast it on your bread. This is still a prototype that I created for the Creative Technology course 'Innovation Lab' in University," he said on the CargoCollective.com site.

 

He said he hit on the idea when he got bored with having a plain slice of bread for breakfast, and "needed something in the morning that would surprise me."

 

Van Haastrecht said he got inspiration from the hidden face of Jesus on a slice of toasted bread and other porjects "where hey use a template to mask out an image."

 

For now, he said the toaster needs to be plugged into a computer to get connected to the Internet, search for a random Google image, and print it on the bread.

 

A future version may soon connect to the Internet via wifi, he hinted.

 

"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. You want to start off your morning well-fed and inspired, and what better way to do that than with a daily surprise in your food?" he said.

 

A separate article on Mashable said the smart toaster uses a grid to determine which parts to toast, but is still a prototype. — TJD, GMA News