My Type of Appliance
by Joey Roth, Brooklyn, USA on 05. 2.07
There's no need to spell out why this waffle iron rocks harder than most. Fleeing the cubicle for the kitchen, this iron lets you cook up a keyboard of tasty carbs every morning. Designed by Chris Dimino as part of a group exhibit for the School of Visual Arts, the typewriter iron represents the best of reinvention: an obsolete product, minimally modified, is given a completely new function. It just wouldn't be as fun (or as green) if the typewriter's metal and plastic were melted down and turned into another forgettable appliance. Visit Chris's site for more proof that a little whimsy is often the key (had to) to recycled design that stands on its own.
This keyboard looks tasty to me :) What people think of..
Is there a Dvorak version?
Is the plastic safe to heat up if it wasn't originally designed to be part of a waffle iron?
I want one!
"an obsolete product, minimally modified..."
An obsolete product? I refuse to cede so quickly to the bland frozen overlords.
Frozen waffles are flour and glue shaped to trick us. Anything hot with syrup on it -- paper mache, gum paste -- would be an equivalent substitute.
Waffles come from irons, syrup comes from trees, and butter comes from cows. I'm ashamed of you people.
What every geek needs for their yummy breakfast goodness
Controll Alt and eat? Sounds tasty!
The waffles look much more like keyboards on the other side. Photographer needed to flip them over.
I most certain they serve frozen waffles in hell! I like the fact that the iron keeps the all important deep pocket imprint so important for maple syrup retention. Great design!
really humorous :-) What a pity I can't own one...
I wish i could own one... :'(
There's got to be a manufacturer somewhere looking at this thread who could build one!