Transparent Toaster, one for the usability wishlist...

From the concept studio at Inventables (and through Engadget and ShinyShiny), the Transparent Toaster seems like a concept that's been begging to become reality for some time - at least from an end-user usability point of view. Of course, toasters in reality are price-locked commodities, and the "heating glass" upon which this concept depends is not yet capable of toasting bread. (And when it is, it'll surely catapult the resulting toaster into a very "unusable" price range.) But man oh man, talk about improving the current process (pop it up, check it out, pop it back down) of achieving the right shade of toast! Just glance over and check it - or heck, in something like this, watching toast toast might even be trance-inducingly satisfying. Beats watching paint dry...