Ted The Talking Toaster: How to Transform a Toaster into a Voice-Controlled Gadget

This is Ted the Talking Toaster, made by Dane and Nicole, creators of the wonderfully surreal 8 Bits and a Byte YouTube channel. The project started life as an ordinary toaster, but thanks to a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and a Google AIY Voice Kit, it can now talk at least as much sense as 70% of the humans we know.

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I heard about your book on NPR this morning. At first blush its an interesting idea. Though carrying it further if you are bound and determined to make an electric toaster from scratch, would you not also have to generate electricity to power it?

Hi,I was asked to read your book for my school and I wanted to ask if your toaster still works today. If not, for how long has it been working? Did you use it on a daily basis or rather put it on the shelf as decoration?Thank you,Zoe.

I found your toaster projct book in Japanese edition at Kyoto prefecture library in Japan. I realized that almost all the convienient things are made by the mass production technologies. The project let us know the amazing technology and development history, and problems facing our important natural environmet.

Owned by Lister, Talkie Toaster is a toaster with artificial intelligence that is completely obsessed with making toast and annoys everyone on board. In Series I (and a deleted scene in Series II), it appears as a standard 1970s-style toaster made from stainless steel but with a circular light on the side which flashes as he speaks, and is voiced by John Lenahan, with a transatlantic accent. In Series IV, it appears as a red toaster made of plastic, with its name "Talkie Toaster" emblazoned on the side, and rather more flashing red and green lights and is voiced by David Ross[5] (who played Kryten in his title episode).

The Talkie Toaster returns in the Series XII episode "Mechocracy" (2017), where it is again voiced by David Ross and depicted in its Series IV appearance. In the episode, the toaster has spent nearly two decades switched off in the garbage hold. Kryten and Lister make a deal with the toaster to swing the election for president of the machines on Red Dwarf in Kryten's favour. After Kryten wins, the Cat locks Rimmer in the garbage hold alone with the toaster until Monday.[6]

Outside the TV series, Talkie Toaster plays a secondary, yet vital role in the book Better Than Life, where Holly revives him in order to have someone to talk to while the crew are stuck in the virtual reality game. In this version, it is toaster who figures out how to restore Holly's IQ after perusing Holly's manuals, and later is also the one who informs the Dwarfers how to survive a black hole, Holly having given him this information while showing off his intelligence before he had to shut himself down (although he 'required' the crew to eat multiple pieces of toast before he gave them the information, Kryten having to eat Rimmer's share).

This dirty talking teddy bear from the movie Ted, comes in 8, 16 and 24-inch versions. The normal version can recite 12 phrases from the movie, while the 24-inch R-rated version is loaded with 5 rude phrases.

Linda is one of the few Veridian employees who sees her job as simply a job and not a life-long career. She dreams to one day publish her own children's book, the story of a stern zebra and a precocious toaster. It may even get finished one day, if only she could get her illustrator to stop partying long enough to draw a toaster that looks like a toaster.

A fire at a West York duplex late Monday morning -- caused when a toaster caught fire after it was left unattended -- displaced at least 10 residents, according to West York Fire Department Capt. Chuck Zienkiewicz.

Melissa Myers, 44, who lives at 1200 W. Poplar St., said she, too, believed the fire was caused by her toaster. She had just made her husband, Eugene Myers, 51, breakfast using the appliance and had just served it to him.

Invented by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor in their science fiction comedy Red Dwarf, the talkie toaster is a toaster that can talk. It is one of the first sentient machines in the series, and is shown to be very intelligent, though somewhat childlike in its behavior. The talkie toaster is later revealed to be part of a secret government experiment to create sentient machines, and is destroyed by the end of the episode.

This appliance, also known as thetalkie Toaster, is a small, white toaster that you can use with your computer to talk to other people using its microphone. If you are feeling lonely or simply want to share a laugh with someone, a Talkie Toaster is the way to go. Talkie Toaster appears to be a very minor novelty at first. But as the conversations between you and Talkie Toaster become more personal, you begin to wonder if you are really talking to a toaster at all. Is Talkie Toaster still alive? Is it just a malfunctioning toaster, or something more sinister? Who do you know? However, one thing is certain: with Talkie Toaster in your life, you never have a dull moment.

Meet some human designers who are breaking down the barriers. In Ireland, Denis Connolly and Anne Cleary have created a series of meta-perceptual helmets that allowed wearers to view the world through the stereo vision of a hammerhead shark or the separately rotatable eyes of the chameleon. To get as close to being a goat as possible, UK designer Thomas Thwaites (TED talk: How I built a toaster from scratch) built himself a prosthetic goat legs and a prosthetic rumen (goat stomach) and took to the Swiss Alps to graze on grass.

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

But is there a lot of other stuff that you can not do and be a good toastercompany? In this presentation in this slide, we actually see a whole bunchof things that are sort of core to making a toaster, but maybe not.

Because you are no longer in control of all these elements, so suddenly, thecomposition of the metal might change and there is a coating on it. Andthat coating turns out to reflect infrared radiation. And suddenly itburns your toast. So you could be a good toaster manufacturer, outsourceeverything and then become extremely good at quality assurance.

If you are passionate about toast, you will not work at acompany that does not build toasters, that only does marketing. So mycentral thesis here is that if as an organization, you outsource too muchwith the idea that we will still retain the designers and our ownpower to innovate, it will not actually work.

The smart people will not work for your company, because you have turnedinto a marketing and financing exercise. And the smart engineers, they wantto build better toasters, they want to touch actual stuff. So the thing is,there is a point of no return.

When Elizabeth Holmes started talking about Theranos, a company she dreamed up at 19 in a Stanford dorm room, Shultz's curiosity was piqued. He would later work at Theranos as an intern. Deanne Fitzmaurice for NPR hide caption

My mother was diagnosed with LBD last August 2020 after taking her often to the ER with UTI issues. They found she also had an abcess near her bladder and put a drain in. I have noticed a great change in her as time goes by. She used to be a kind and caring and expressive soul. Now she is getting more verbally agressive and showing not much emotion about anything. Halluscinations are a part of her illness and she sees things here and there but some times will go 2 nights of not sleeping at all just talking to her dead relatives and other people she sees. She gest scared of some men she sees in her bed or sees kids, birds, bugs, men working all kinds of things and will not believe the are not there. After 2 nights of not sleeping the 3rd day she finally falls asleep out of exhustion and sleeps all day and night. She is on Seraquil and sleep med but when these nights happen nothing works! I have been staying up all night with her to help her to washroom and just keeping an eye on her when she sees things. Sometimes she hears a baby crying and wants to search around the house for it. But she is not very stable walking. When walking at this time she is so bent over its like she is going to touch the ground. She will try to step over invisible things so we have to hold tight onto her. She recalls the past often, gets confused and numbers seem to be a big thing for her she will sit and just either pretend to write them in her lap or say them out loud. I am getting very frustarted and thinking of what is best since all the Drs keep telling me that it will only get worse. I have been thinking of putting her in a home since i find home care costs are way too high. IT seems nursing homes are not as costly. I am in a very frustarted state feeling that I might not be able to go much longer with the way things are with her. Any advise?

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