Highest popping toaster-world record set byFreddie
Yauner
[June
25] LONDON, UK--Freddie
Yauner, 26, sent his toast 2.6 metres (8.5ft) into
the air at the Royal College of Art graduate show setting
the new world record for the highest popping toaster. Photo:A
piece of toast popped from the toaster by Mr Yauner reached
a height of 2.6metres (8.5ft). The
Highest Popping Toaster in the World, or "The Moaster", took
3 months to build and utilizes a high-pressure CO2 gas system
and mechanical ram.(enlarge
photo)
26-year-old Freddie
Yauner, from Stoke Newington in London, is graduating
from the Royal College of Art course in Design Products.
Freddie
Yauner said: "All my works are satirical pieces
that have a serious side."We constantly conjure up too many
objects that do far more than they need to do, with extra
features year-on-year. "The popping element of a toaster is
totally unnecessary."
His pimped-out device - a sleak beast powered
by high-pressure CO2 and a mechanical ram, which he has dubbed
'The Moaster' - managed to propel the toast an impressive,
record-setting 2m 60cm into the air in an indoor test.
The final mechanism was made by John Findlay at
www.roamingrobots.co.uk. The whole thing is powered
by a microchip which times the filament and then sends a 24v
charge to a solenoid, which releases the gas into the ram,
which pushes the pivoting arm upwards very very quickly...then
you have flying toast.
The Moaster isn't his only venture into the world
of overpowered design - his satirical 'Because We Can' series
of uselessly extreme products also features 'the
longest lipstick in the world'* (a years supply) and
'the
fastest clock in the world'* (Digital time to a millionth
of a second), both of which are about as useful as a toaster
that flings your pop tarts against the opposite wall every
morning. * these (the clock and the lipstick) are NOT the
official world records
