10 Daily Things

The Scan Toaster connects to a PC over USB and downloads everything from local weather conditions and the current time to the morning’s news headlines.

Inside the toaster is a network of toasting “modules”, each heated by a hot wire. Each module can move by 30° and, once the user selects what they want on their toast - excluding a topping, of course - the modules align themselves and burn the appropriate content onto the bread.

The appliance is a finalist in design competition run by manufacturer Electrolux and designer Sung Bae Chang said he got the idea whilst - you guessed it - making some toast.

No plans to manufacture the toaster on a mass scale have popped up yet.

Indians trying to reduce their carbon footprint somewhat? Anyway, lots of fun for the kiddies.

This was recorded in Mumbai 3 September 2008, on one of the local trains. The man who recorded this footage, along with his brother who was positioned beside the man who fell, are now too stressed to take the trains.