Electric Rice Cooker-esque Bread Maker

Bread making just got infinitely easier in Japan with National's automated home bakery SD-BT153. Yes, it looks like a rice cooker, but more amazingly, it actually works pretty much just like one, too. All you have to do is put all your dry and wet ingredients--butter, sugar, water, yeast--in the silver container, close the lid, and press COOK. The menu on the left lets you pick what exactly you're making--French bread, loaf of soft bread, quick loaf, etc. It also makes pasta, cake, and mochi. Oh, and if you want to make raisin bread, there's a special little tray for nuts and raisins that will dispense them evenly into the bread as it cooks.

Product page (via Impress Watch)