Inventor creates world's first weather-forecasting toaster

An inventor has created the world's first weather-forecasting toaster.

Robin Southgate's toaster is linked to a weather forecast website and browns the bread using different stencils.

The machine can produce images of clouds, sun or rain by using stencils that mask part of the slice while the rest carries on being toasted.

Mr Southgate, a design student at Brunel University, said: "It works with brown, though it's best with white - but it should work with any bread."

The bread is toasted until the last half-minute when an electric motor inside the toaster rolls out the stencil in front of the bread.

A modem inside the toaster regularly consults a website with up-to-date weather information.