The waffle is part of an exhibition at London’s The Outsiders Gallery from the infamous street artist Invader, who puts Space Invaders on just about anything. Naturally, the Space Invaders waffle will be making an appearance since the title of the show is Attack of the Space Waffles. The best part is that you’ll actually be able to eat some for yourself, as a Space Invaders waffle maker will be doling out hot waffles to visitors during the show.

If you’re in London between December 2nd and 24th, swing by the show, you’ll get to see a brand new mosaic, an invaded disco ball, and a 20-minute documentary. And waffles.

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This project was led by Dr. Michael Beets and Dr. Bernd Radig, part of a team or researchers in the IAS group at Germany’s Technical University in Munich. The robots they created actually go shopping and prepare a traditional Bavarian breakfast. Two robots were created for this project, TUM-James and TUM-Rosie. TUM-James takes care of the shopping while TUM-Rosie does the cooking. TUM-Rosie can boil sausages, skim them out and serve them. TUM-James can cut some baguettes for you. These ‘bots learn from doing, so sure enough, we’ll have Skynet (or a robotic Denny’s) on our hands soon.

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The ‘bots use MS Kinect sensors as their vision, and the robots can make logical decisions when handling materials that they are unfamiliar with. Hopefully, at some point, they’ll be making a fruit salad or some eggs to go with the sausages.

[IEEE Spectrum via Designboom]

Chris Dimino took an old Smith-Corona Coronamatic typewriter and replaced the keys with a fully-functional waffle iron. I love how the waffles look like keyboards. Not only do they look way cooler than conventional Belgian waffles, they’re actually better at holding syrup and butter thanks to all the added QWERTY nooks and crannies.

He made this thing for a traveling exhibition called “The Next Best…Ding!“ a couple of years back. Maybe this newfound publicity will encourage Dimino to work on a production run of these. If not, are you reading this, Cuisinart?

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Orchestrated by Dr. Petar Kormushev and Dr. Sylvain Calinon at the Italian Institute of Technology (I didn’t think they even know what pancakes were in Italy), the Barrett WAM 7 DOFs manipulator robot arm, or as I like to call him – “Flippy” – could someday be fixing my flapjacks. At this point, Flippy is just learning the basics of maneuvering the pan and doesn’t know how to work with anything other than a fake pancake, but he means well.

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As you can see from the video, Flippy is still working out the kinks, but after about 50 attempts to get it right, he’s now able to flip his artificial pancake disc reliably. Now all he needs to do is pour batter into the pan, put it over a flame, and come over to my house for breakfast this weekend.

[via WIRED]

It won’t be up for auction much longer, so if you want to own a genuine artifact of American breakfast and video games (hell, it’s older than some of you are), go to eBay now and bid at least $73 (USD).

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The machine was put together mostly from items that Suzuki got from IKEA, so its very possible for you to make your own version of the machine. The Telegraph calls it a “Wallace and Gromit-style” machine, which I think is the best way to describe it.

That’s Suzuki, looking like he’s badly in need of food himself,  inspecting his creation. He said that he spent a total of £900 ($1,475 USD) for the parts. The machine, which measures 43 feet by 10 feet, took Suzuki and his friends about 88 hours to complete. It was put together at Platform 21, an exhibition center in Amsterdam.  Let’s watch it at work! (there’s more info for you if you can understand French Dutch (dank je Lars!))

I wish Suzuki would post instructions for making the breakfast machine. Then again even if I had the instructions I’d be too lazy to go and build one for myself.

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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.

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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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And voila… totally custom toast. Now all the guys over at Evil Mad Scientist need to do is figure out a way to mass produce these.

[via Coolest Gadgets]

Today, Dan gave me just enough of an excuse by when he jumped into the video gaming world. The latest masterpiece in Dan’s Mister Toast series features two of my all time favorite icons of modern culture, smashed together into a single bite-sized morsel.

Without further adieu, I present to you Super Mario Toast…

While you’re at it, be sure to check out Dan’s other works over on Etsy, where he features original artworks, t-shirts, postcards, books and other tschotskes.