Two guys got together to make a machine that would fix breakfast for their wives. Peter Browne designed the mechanics, and his friend Mervyn Huggett made sure the electronics worked. The machine cooks a soft-boiled egg, toast, and tea. It even delivers a newspaper and clears the dishes for you! It has extraneous lights, gadgets, and toys because the main goal is "to make people laugh."
The two men say they put about a thousand hours of work into the project over three months, but it was worth it. Now, if only Simone Giertz could get her robots to work half as well… -via Uproxx