10/3/02 10:29:25 AM, Tal Dayan <tal@ZAPTA.COM> wrote:

>Lawrence, yes, similar business except that our slices of bread comes with
>built in
>sensors and microcontroller. This way the toaster queries independent
>parameters,
>status and history information from each slice. We believe this is the ONLY
>way
>to achieve perfect toasting of each an every slice.
>
>BTW, we are also working on a recycling program for these chips but there
>are few ugly problems that we have not solved yet.
>
>(just kidding of course)

I'm reminded of an old paper in the _Journal of Irreproducible Results_ in which the author designs
a new mousetrap which offers far superior performance to existing mousetraps, at the expense of
having to change the specs for the mouse.

I think the toast problem is really a chemistry problem rather than a physics one.  You need to
develop self-toasting bread.  That way you achieve true object orientation; instead of applying a
procedure to the slice, you send the slice a "toast" message.

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