THE VIDEO SHELF · toaster design
How to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940's
Technology Connections praises a 1940s-50s Sunbeam toaster and explains what makes a toaster well designed, drawing on a vintage Sunbeam video.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a passionate take on good appliance design and cited in toaster threads.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Technology Connections
- Topic
- toaster design
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Indeed, and in some cases the experiences have gotten worse. There's a Youtube channel named Technology Connections and he has several videos on this topic that I recommend. This one about Sunbeam toasters from 50+ years ago is particularly great: [VIDEO]
BeefWellington on Hacker News · 2022-04
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shagie on Hacker News · 2023-07
In A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now
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