I just had a wonderful idea for a practical appliance. It’s a toaster with programmable shapes that can be embedded on the toast.

The toaster will have, say, 100 different heating bodies, 10 by 10, and you will be able to draw an image, and according to that, the toast will get the desired ‘print’ by having only the heating bodies that you want to turn on turn on. Basically, this thing creates uneven toasts under very controlled situations. And it should’nt be hard either - we have successfully put NetBSD on a toaster, so that could be the next step.

Of course, those little heating bodies will have to be pretty close to the toast itself to get a good “resolution”, and perhaps more than 100, more like 16×16. I don’t know.

The toaster will be accessed via either Bluetooth, and will have several presets built in that you can use.

I’d buy one.