High-tech Toasters
There have been a number of projects adding advanced technology to toasters.
In 1990, Simon Hackett and John Romkey created The Internet Toaster, a toaster which could be controlled from the Internet.
In 2001, Robin Southgate from Brunel University in England created a toaster that could toast a graphic of the weather prediction (limited to sunny or cloudy) onto a piece of bread. The toaster dials a pre-coded phone number to get the weather forecast.
In 2005, Technologic Systems, a vendor of embedded systems hardware, designed a toaster running the NetBSD Unix-like operating system as a sales demonstration system.
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