Toaster

Every year, businesses get in on the April Fool’s fun, attempting to trick us into believing they’ve either had a stroke of genius or the entire board of directors have gone stark raving mad, but now one of these pranks, the Razer Toaster, is becoming a reality.

Of all the smart devices that can give reminders or the weather in the morning, the toaster probably isn’t one that springs to mind. Toasteroid is a smart toaster that can cook a customized image or message into your bread, forecast the weather, or send a message to a friend’s toaster.

Before you get too excited, it's not that Bugatti. Nonetheless, the Bugatti appliance company's transparent Noun toaster does sport some quite remarkable features, including the ability to very precisely cook foods other than toast – and at a price of a thousand bucks, you'd expect it to.

Italian product designer Simone Rebaudengo has created a connected toaster that becomes unhappy when it goes unused, drawing attention to opportunities for e-waste to be reduced.

The Arzum Firrin is a toaster that forgoes alarming pop-out mechanisms for a more sedate sliding tray.

Contrary to the impression the name may give, the Super Mega Mega Toaster isn't a giant version of the humble bread-browning electrical appliance.

French designer Gaspard Tiné-Berès seeks to repair and re-use damaged kitchen appliances, with readily available reclaimed materials providing the necessary components.

Compact4All is a space-saving kitchen appliance for breakfast lovers.

UK kitchen appliance manufacturer Breville has taken two kitchen favorites and merged them into one device – the Radio Toaster.

The TOASTit bag lets you throw all kinds of crazy foods into your toaster without any concern for the mess afterwards.

Bodum's Flatbed toaster allows you to defrost, toast and warm and is easily packed away

The transparent toaster concept from Inventibles uses heated glass technology to let you watch your slices gradually browning over so you can pull them when they're perfect. Are we looking at the Toaster 2.0 here?