On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:48:33 GMT, Arfa Daily wrote:

8............

In contrast, we have two 4-slice toasters at our cafe, which also use
an electromagnetic locking system, but have a cancel button. Simple
and much more effective than the Philips effort.

However, in making the mass market model for the Great Unwashed, if you
can eliminate a switch - the attendant wiring - and the resulting
assembly complexity -- and you save 50 cents per model....
Now, then, if you sell 10,000,000 of them .....................