Cool, New High-Tech Kitchen Gadget Makes 3-D Pancakes

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Happy National Pancake Day! Imagine celebrating with a batch of 3-D pancakes in the mirror-image of your own face. Or, the shape of a dinosaur, or the Eiffel Tower.

Well... now you can using the PancakeBot. Breakfast and brunch will never be the same.

This cool, new, high-tech kitchen gadget will make your pancakes pop. Part griddle, part printer, this gizmo transforms batter into three-dimensional shapes and patterns with robotic precision.

It looks a little bit like those old-fashioned credit card swipers, but there's a reservoir of pancake batter on top instead of the plastic or resin you'd use on a 3-D printer. Images can be transferred via special software and then fed into the device via its built-in SD card slot.

It sounds tricky, but the PancakeBot can translate imaginable shape into an edible flapjack in a matter of minutes. It will even take colored batter and make more complicated designs.

The pricetag on the PancakeBot is around the same as you paid for that high-end blender/pastamaker you only used once.

It's $299.