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tetris waffles: how to play with your food

filed under: just plain fun | video games

Waffle Tetris

Two of my favorite pastimes, waffles and Tetris have joined forces in this, my favorite photo of the week.

I’m guessing that you could slow down those rapidly descending breakfast blocks with just a little butter and maple syrup. And there’s nothing quite like a little paper napkin technology for keeping score.
[via pfrhanzilicious on Flickr]

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February 29th, 2008 5 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

it’s toast-errific… the toast printer

filed under: computing | just plain fun | strange and wonderful

CNC Toaster

Sure, we’ve seen toast with images of Elvis, Jesus and other famous cultural icons, but this device lets you create any image you’d like, in toast form.

The computer controlled toast burner uses a specially modified CNC fabricator with a hot air gun in its carriage. As the system moves along the horizontal and vertical axes, the heat source is modulated by a computer…

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May 2nd, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

it’s super mario in toast form

filed under: just plain fun | video games

Super Mario Toast Painting by Dan Goodsell.

I’ve been dying for an excuse to feature one of my favorite artists, Dan Goodsell on my blog, but his whimsical paintings never seemed quite appropriate for Technabob.
Today, Dan gave me just enough of an excuse by when he jumped into the video gaming world…

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April 22nd, 2007 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob