It's beautiful... I must have one!

Maybe so, but you still have to make 3 different trips to get all the required ingredients. Sure it optimizes a little, but in the end I don't think it saves much work.

Points for innovation however!

--Jon Z | http://www.jzencovich.com

These have been around for 15 years, where have you guys been?

As the proud owner of an Egg & Muffin I feel obligated to point out that w/o a way to cook a breakfast meat, it's just a fancy coffeepot.

i saw almost that exact thing at a big lots for about $25.

will it blend?

Or you could just use the stove for all three...

I guess it is the 'Japanese' part that makes this new or innovative...

They've been around for at least 3 years..

Get them on Ebay for $10 USD refurbed!

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F...

http://www.inventionchannel.com/product/product.jsp?produc...

To the comments above me: Where does it say gizmodo only covers new gadgets?

That is so Japanese, I like it!

I wonder how they keep the circuit breaker from tripping. Those are typically high wattage devices. To throw all three on the same circuit together seems ill advised. It would be more impressive if this unit utilized the waste heat from the oven element to cook the egg and heat the water/pot. That would be very efficient and worth a look. Of course, if that were the case it wouldnt make any sense to use any one feature alone. It's an all or nothing deal.

Actually, looking at the pics on ebay, the top tray looks like it's heated off the oven vent. I'll bet the coffee water is perculated undeneath the oven heat element. Nifty! And it only uses 1150 Watts.

This thing is perfect, now if only I ate eggs, or drank coffee.... still I like toast!

Umm having those precise three functions makes this the most specialised single use gadget in a kitchen - only of use when I want toast egg and weak watery coffee... hehehe.

WTF?! Who has time for that? Perhaps after work. It's all about a couple takoyaki in the microwave and a can of Boss coffee in the morning, or whatever is on sale for ¥99. (cause you know damn well what we were doing the night before)

Besides, after you scramble your egg with soy sauce, you still need to throw the rice in and stir it up. That'll make a mess on that thing as there's no room.

What is that in there, bread?! and who's going to drink all that coffee?

I do enjoy a fried egg on toast, with a cup of coffee once in a while, but this has got to be a pain in the ass to clean. Besides, who doesn't already own a pan and an implement to boil water for coffee/tea?

Hey, if it floats your boat, power to you.

Hi,

It could possibly save space, i.e in a flat(by not having to have a separate toaster) and as someone mentioned it would be especially attractive if it saved on energy by utilizing the waste heat from the oven element to cook the egg and heat the water/pot. It could be convenient for some people, who often have toast, coffee and egg together.

@ Clipdat

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'cutting edge' 'latest news'

This is neither.

It also isn't 'ingenious', as Lisa states, if this company is copying a product that is already out there.

Omg, can I jump on the 'old news' bandwagon!

Gizmodo ur so silly, this is teh old!

Jesus, you guys (posters) are like predators, you see a sign of weakness then pounce in a pack.

Prior patent art goes back a long way here. From a 1992 filed patent, US 5,203,252...
"It is the primary object of the present invention to provide a toaster with multi-function which possesses multi-function which can toast breads, warm a cup of coffee, broil eggs and fry an egg at the same time."

This one dates back a ways, from a 1992 filed patent, US 5,203,252...

"It is the primary object of the present invention to provide a toaster with multi-function which possesses multi-function which can toast breads, warm a cup of coffee, broil eggs and fry an egg at the same time."

We had one of these in our break-room last year; the heating element and the basic frame of the thing were one and the same. It has the requisite 'No Touching' lawyer/moron stickers, but still, how idiotic! You're going to burn yourself if you actually attempt to use the tin pan on the top.

Cornballs anyone?

ewww that eggmaker part has no business in a break room, it wouldn't get washed for months

I have to go with Greysky on that one. In a typical office, eventually someone from IT would use it to heat up a pair of socks.

Looks like about $35 if the translation and currency converter were correct.

I'd still buy one.
~5yb

I think we should implement a eh seen it policy...which in turns means if you have already seen x item x number of years ago...you say to YOURSELF..."eh seen it" and then move on...without posting.

I like the part where it says "food not included" PRICELESS!

HAHAHAHAHAHah.......

Awesome. So when one component goes out you're out a coffee maker, microwave, and egg griddle...

what will they think of next?

no, this looks like a clean-up nightmare. When I break an egg, there's always an eggwhite puddle & I could see this dripping into the coffee maker vents. Or, what happens if you get some shell in there by mistake? Can't stick your finger onto a hot plate to dig it out without risk.

I admit, I need to get better at breaking eggs AND I'm a neat-freak. Not the product for me.

Wow. A decide that makes three different things each less than a third as good as any one individual device could. Brilliant!

Just the perfect addition to my mobile home.

They've been selling these on target.com for ages now. Check it out:
http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/sr=1-2/qid=1166057160...

I'm a college student and I have one... good for biscuits too.... :)

I have one in my apartment, got it from SM Megamall (in Manila) for $24 (around 1,200 pesos). Geez, those kinds of appliances have been around since the 1990s...

At 1150 watts, this is an excellent cooking device for truck drivers.

Smells like excellent makeshift chemistry set!