Maybe it’s because many of us geeks heated up wires with electricity to create a make-shift toaster as our 5th grade science project, or possibly it’s that toast is one of the tried and true breakfast foods that we have trouble screwing up? Whatever the reason toasters seem to be a popular item with gadget lovers everywhere, despite a limited variety of designs available to consumers.

When we saw this transparent toaster concept we couldn’t help but share. It uses heated glass to burn a single piece of bread in plain view right before your eyes, eliminating all guessing as to what setting your toaster needs today to get it just right. How to clean it and where the crumbs go and how you get your toast out of it may still have to be worked out, but we’d be one of the first few in line to give it a try.

If you’re wondering what happened to all those bricked phones that used to have the 20 foot coiled cord in your kitchen before everything went cordless, you’ll be happy to see that some of them have been put to good use, maybe. It appears that at least a few of them ended up in hands of Netherlands designer Henk Stallinga where he turned them into salt and pepper shakers.

It actually seems to work out well, where the earpiece has fewer holes and the mouthpeice has more just like a salt and pepper shaker would, respectively. The clearer back pieces are salvaged as well from the light indicators off of old Morris Mini cars, which apparently match up nicely size-wise.

Even though this is kind of a cool idea and the salt and pepper holes thing works out, …

Gone are the days where you had the daunting task of writing the date on an open container in your refrigerator and then being forced to conjure up the current date and calculate the difference between then and now. The DaysAgo Digital Day Counter now counts the days for you to end all question about just how old that casserole is.

The DayAgo counter can stick onto something either with a magnet or a suction cup and counts up to 99 days. Once it’s done it can be removed and reused on something else by resetting the counter and sticking it on. At a glance you can then see if your opened items or left-overs have been “in there” for a couple days or a couple weeks.

The DaysAgo website shows many examples that actually seem pretty practical, from measuring time that foods in the …

One thing that really makes it difficult when trying to rough-it in a camp site is the noticeable lack of frozen drinks. Sure you have plenty of ice in the cooler, but what if you want to blend up a margarita or other frozen concoction?

Well, it’s a good thing Coleman is looking out for you with their rechargeable blender. This camping gadget is able to blend up a 48 oz pitcher of drinks in about 30 seconds and can mix up as many as 30 pitchers in one charge, which should get most people through a weekend of mixing it up with nature.

The cordless blender has two basic settings: “blending” and “not blending”. It comes in a silver stainless steel finish and the pitcher locks into the base for easy and safe transporting. We’re not sure if it would hold up to blending …

60 years ago the futurists of the day told us that the 21st century will be a paperless society. A quick look around any office will prove that the dead tree technology isn’t going away anytime soon but there are more and more alternatives to use a high tech replacement for the old tried and true method.

Consider the weekly grocery list. All you need is a pencil and paper and a good memory, but we all know that writing down everything that you need to pick up doesn’t happen as often as we like it to. The SmartShopper eliminates that problem by allowing you to press the record button on the device and saying what it is that you need to get from the store, like milk, eggs, ketchup, butter and so on.

The SmartShopper recognizes your item from its pre-programmed …

In the world of low-tech gadgets this heat sensitive spoon is one of those items that is actually pretty cool. It can be used in the microwave to sense the temperature of whatever is being heated up and indicate when it’s at 120 degrees Fahrenheit by a change in color. Conceivable just the opposite could apply, where this spoon would also indicate when something has cooled below 120 degrees avoiding someone sticking their finger in your food either way.

The heat sensitive spoon is meant for microwave preparation only as it is only heat resistant to 250 degrees Fahrenheit and could melt otherwise. The spoons come in a set of 3 in different colors and go for under $10 for the set.

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Not to often does a guy get to write about breakfast gadgets but it’s a good thing that cool gadgets are everywhere, including your kitchen!

This is the Pop Art Toaster, intended to burn a little fun into your morning routine. I can understand how you can get tired of plain old toast in the morning. With this you can surprise your significant other in the morning with a special unexpected message, burned right into their breakfast bread. What better way to say you care than sending a message charred into bread?

You can obtain a varied number of Pop Art toasters with different plates that slide in between the heating elements and the bread that have cut outs to make the different patterns. Aside from that it works like a regular toaster. The plates can be removed to do some regular toasting, and it …

Watch out Emeril and Bobby Flay, a whole new cadre of amateur chefs are about to achieve a level of cooking previously reserved for celebrity chefs.

Vita Craft has introduced Smart Range, a new line of intelligent cooking technology that helps you create healthier, easier meals - every time.

The Smart Range cookware utilizes an RFID computer chip that is built into each pan handle. The chip is used to communicate with the cook top and recipe cards and monitor each cooking step for a particular dish. The RFID chip in each Vita Craft pan handle is specifically designed for that type of pan.

The pans themselves are superior-quality, multi-ply steel pans with a smooth-surface. The 100% American-made, high-conductivity Vita Craft pans are self-sealing, simple to clean and ensure that hapless cooks can prepare food flawlessly.

Cooking with these pans certainly won’t guarantee you your own …