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Old 21-06-2009, 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by GTB_an_Owl View Post
my mother once had a toaster that talked to her

(it used to pick up one of the radio stations )

true

geoff
It is feasible that a junction of dissimilar metals can act as a diode making the toaster the equivalent of an old style crystal radio, but then you need some sort of magnetic transducer equivalent to produce sound. Must have been very faint.
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