Daily Mail: Wallace and Gromit-style breakfast-making machine that guarantees a perfect start to the day
Hollywood directors dreamed of it: the breakfast machine. Imagine a contraption that sets a chain reaction in motion at the push of a button, frying eggs, juicing oranges, brewing coffee, making toast, and serving it all on a plate with jam, meat and cheese. What a perfect way to start the day! This fantasy became reality, when Japanese designers Yuri Suzuki and Masa Kimura built a real-life breakfast machine with help from fellow designers and the public. Yuri Suzuki, 26, who studied at the prestigious Royal College of Art in London, made the Wallace and Gromit-style device with fellow artist Masa Kimura, 28. It was built at the Platform 21 exhibition centre in Amsterdam, and saw scores of helpers and other designers contribute. The impressive device can prepare everything from omelettes to freshly-squeezed orange juice, and can even spread butter and jam onto toast. It will also grind coffee beans before brewing them. Tokyo-born Mr Suzuki...told how his creation had been inspired by Hollywood films. 'When you look at movies like Pee Wee Herman and Back to the Future, there are breakfast machines in them,' he said. The ingenious design sees a series of different mechanisms combined to create one large machine...more...
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