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At last!!!! I want one!!!!
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 9:54 pm
by Gob
A toaster which can cook bread to a person's exact preferred shade of brown has been invented by a student.
The 'Hue' smart toaster has been designed by Basheer Tome, 21, after he grew tired of having to hover over unreliable toasters only for his bread to emerge burnt to a crisp.
The new toaster ditches traditional time settings in favour of a state-of-the-art colour-sensing method to ensure the bread inside never burns.
Although the toaster is just a concept design at the moment, Basheer hopes manufacturers will soon be knocking on his door to discuss mass production of the toaster.
Several cardboard prototypes were made in the design process before the toaster was made.
The final version is made of aluminum, steel and double-paned glass.
Basheer, who invented the toaster at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, U.S., said: 'The project started as a quest to make toasters easier to use.
'I found out that a transparent glass toaster was really a popular idea on the internet but was never created due to a lot of practical issues.
'It's because people don't trust their toaster and have no predictable way to communicate with it.
'The majority of toasters measure toast based on time yet with very little consistency between brands, models, and different toasters which makes it tricky.
'Most people don't know which numbered setting is right on the first attempt.
'After a bit of brainstorming I ran into the idea of using colour since that's normally how people work out how 'done' their slice of toast is.'
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Re: At last!!!! I want one!!!!
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 1:42 am
by rubato
Interesting idea. Looks like the color is detected only in one spot. I wonder if they could make it look at several spots and then average the result?
yrs,
rubato
Re: At last!!!! I want one!!!!
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 2:14 am
by dales
White bread only?
Racist toaster.
Re: At last!!!! I want one!!!!
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 2:19 am
by Scooter
That's what I was thinking - what if you wanted to toast whole wheat or rye or pumpernickel, it obviously couldn't work the same way unless there was some sort of setting you could change.
Re: At last!!!! I want one!!!!
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 8:14 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
I bought a toaster way back when my kids were little and saturday and sunday were "dippy egg" days. It was from Westinghouse. First run of toast went fine, but the second would start then stop. It got to a point where I had to put it on broil and then flip the bread so that it took more than 15 minutes to make a piece of toast. The third set of toast, the toaster didn't even turn on. I took the POS back and got another thinking the temperature guage was broken. Same problems with the second one. Last Westinghouse appliance I ever bought (and I did lodge a complaint). Got a black and decker toaster, have had it for almost 20 years and have not a problem. Toast too light, put it on again. At least it will turn on and toast.
As far as checking how "brown" the toast is, I would hope that the toaster has a "learning cycle" where one could say this is white bread (does anyone other than me eat white bread anymore?) and this is how brown I like it, and the same for rye, whole wheat etc. People tend to buy the same brand of bread over and over so there is a potential for this to be a consumer appliance as long as they can choose their bread type (more than one) and the associated "brown-ness".