How would you like to ingrain a reminder into the slice of bread meant for your kids? Or even your very own smiley face? Well, with this new startup, you might be able to very soon. It’s called toasteroid.
WHAT TOASTEROID IS
Toasteroid is a startup company that more or less lets you customize your toast in as many ways imaginable. From a weather forecast to a good morning note left for your significant other to meet on the breakfast table.
This idea might seem alien and even somewhat weird to some; which is quite understandable. But, if you consider you the fact that toasting bread can be a really boring chore, adding some fun to it might not really a bad thing to do.
People have been quite responsive to this idea and have somewhat embraced it to a reasonable extent. In the first 48 hours alone, they had pledges of $22,797 from 243 people. If you ask me, those are really encouraging numbers.
But, it is important to note that these are just pledges and the real money is yet to come and won’t until the actual kick off.
HOW TOASTEROID WILL WORK – THEORETICALLY
In essence, there will be a special toaster which is half of the brains behind this project. This is what will handle the printing of the desired pattern. The other half will be the Toasteroid companion app which you install on your mobile device. You pair this with the Toasteroid toaster via bluetooth, choose desired pattern and voila, you have your very own custom made toast.
Some of the cool options available for the Toasteroid customizations are:
- Doodles
- Weather
- Custom Messages
- Reminders
- Brownness control – this is my personal favorite. Goodbye to burnt toasts!
See a sample of what you can do with Toasteroid below:
You can read more on Toasteroid and see demos of these customization and even choose to help the cause with a donation here.
Do we really need something like toasteroid? Maybe, maybe not. We’ll just have to wait to find out, won’t we?
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