Of course, instead of crushing or impaling, these walls toast your bread to death. The crumby lifeblood falls into the pan below and can be easily removed and cleaned for the next victim. Again, Product Tank is only a concept, but it has potential. [Product Tank via Core77]

Current says it will be on sale in time for Mother’s Day for an RRP of $79.95. I say to hell with mother’s day though - I need one of these today!

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Indeed, 2009 represents 100 years since Frank Shailor and General Electric came up with the D12 in 1909. It may look like a major fire and burn hazard, but this device was the world’s first commercially successful toaster and it paved the way for the Pop-Tart you had this morning. That’s right—without Frank Shailor’s invention, nerds would surely starve. [Daily Express via Fark / Image via Jitterbuzz]

The Super Nintoaster, like its predecessor, is a fully-functioning SNES case that does actually start games when the toast lever is pushed.

It doesn’t appear to toast bread anymore, but that’s probably for the best. [Craziest Gadgets]

There are mods and there are Mods. And the VHS Toaster definitely fits into the capitalised category. (Read on for video.)

The marriage of a Daewoo VHS deck and a Swan Elegance single-slot toaster, the only way it could be better is if it burned little tape spools into the toast. DVDs could work too, you know, if the toaster were completely self-loathing. [Instructables via Hack-a-Day]

Apparently this design would allow the user to adjust the angle and force in order to precisely hit the plate from a distance. Sure, you would probably waste an entire loaf of bread before you got it right (unless you subscribe to the seven second rule), but mixing medieval weaponry and slices of golden brown wheat is always a winner in my book. Besides, we already know that toast can be hurled through the air at a tremendous velocity.[Ivo Vos via Gizmodo UK]

Resembling a VCR turned on its side, the Jacob Jensen one-slot toaster features LED-backlit buttons that will bring a blue home theatre glow to your counter top while serving as a countdown timer during toasting. Plus you get 9 toasting settings, user memory functions and “automatic bread centration,” a prospect so well-phrased that we had to plagiarise it from the Appliancist.

Priced just under $US100, I don’t know art, but I know a toaster that looks like a VCR when I see one (which, by no surprise, is my very definition of art). [EZStyle via Appliancist]

The “Toasting Charger” concept by Hyun-A Ko is designed to charge your batteries like a toaster cooks bread to a golden brown. Just slide in a lithium ion battery, push down the handle and wait for it to pop up fully charged. There is even a colour coded light on the side to keep you informed on the battery’s progress. I love the idea—but, alas, it is only a concept at the moment. [Yanko]