Admittedly a little eccentric, Wallace (of Wallace and Gromit fame) is nevertheless an automation genius. Remember his breakfast machine, The Autochef? Well, Peter Brown and Mervyn Huggett spent almost three months building one for themselves! Their machine is capable of boiling an egg, toasting a slice of bread and delivering you a newspaper in just a few minutes. Why did they embark on this somewhat crazy project? To impress their wives, of course!