Radio Toaster: Ultimate Convergence Device?

By Doug Aamoth | @daamoth | February 21, 2011 | +

The fact that it took until 2011 for this to exist should make us all sad. But that sadness should only last for a short while because an invention as epic as the Radio Toaster brings only joy. And toast. And music!

The toast portion… well, makes toast. The radio portion does AM and FM, features 10 station presets and sports an auxiliary input for when you decide you’ve had enough of conventional radio and want to listen to your MP3s.

Is $80 too much to ask for a radio with a built-in toaster? Perhaps. But we can all agree that it’s a fair price for a toaster with a built-in radio.

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tereglith

I’ll buy it when they make a radio toaster OVEN. So it can not only toast bread and play music, but can also cook TINY PIZZAS.
http://meweylongtail.wordpress.com izaoddwun

Hardly a new idea as back in the 1930s one could buy a Crosley Shelvador refrigerator with a Crosley AM radio built into the door.
spacedad2

IT, It’s like..a Wonder Land, with marvelous shiny appliances that give you anything you might want! Music! Entertainment! and..TOAST! THIS MUST BE THE FUTURE!

On a related note, I actually have been looking for a good kitchen radio, with half a dozen pre-sets, and the option to hook up my MP3 player. If it had USB access, and could hook up auxiliary speakers…
http://ratfinkbiker.wordpress.com ratfinkbiker

We truly live in an age of miracles and wonders! The President has called upon our nation to “out-innovate” the competition and here’s proof that we can!
http://markthemes.wordpress.com markthemes

Gotta have it. Where can I buy it? MeS™
http://twitter.com/jmproffitt @jmproffitt

Someone’s going to mistake those slots for iPhone docks and… zzzap!

Which reminds me… Where’s the iPhone dock?
http://michvinmar.wordpress.com/ Michael V. Marcotte

Wow… in the race to get radio where people want it most… the toaster beat the Apple iPhone!