Geek Waffle-Maker: We’re Not Worthy May 03, 2007
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Waffles may have come and gone on this side of the world but they still hold a fascination for many in the US.
Designer Chris Dimino though has decided that instead of eating a few thousand of them, he’d create something a little different. This is the waffle maker for geeks, with keyboard shaped waffles. He’s taken an old typewriter and cleverly re-used it to create one-off waffles for us proud and starving nerds. And it looks great in the process. In his own words:
Problem: Typewriter - Take this now useless item and give it a new life then it was intended to have.
Solution: The “Corona-Matic” a typewriter turned into a waffle iron that makes keyboard shaped waffles. Part of: The Next Best…Ding! A travelling exhibit on the reinvention of the typewriter.
This is ‘Green’ design done right.-Martin Lynch
Editor and Contributor | Martin Lynch
Contributor | Tamlin Magee
Comments
"He’s taken an old typewriter and cleverly re-used it..."
Uh, I don't think so. These waffles are formed by solid, one-piece aluminum castings backed with heating elements, just as in any waffle iron. There are no keys or other actual typewriter parts here. In fact, this has about the same relationship to a real typewriter as a Mickey Mouse waffle maker has to a live mouse. It's an amusing novelty that makes keyboard-shaped waffles, but let's not pretend we're recycling here.