Prompted to craft a tool out of wood capable of picking up, cracking, and beating an egg, I crafted this apparatus.
The lower panel bends out, allowing the egg to be picked up into a net made of melted plastic bag. The upper box, with a sharp wooden edge inside, closes into the panel containing the net. The three elements can then be smacked together against a surface, much like a fly swatter, to break the egg. The box can then be moved up and the egg sieved out through the net into a bowl, to then be beaten by the other end of the tool.
You can see a video of how my tool, as well as several of my peers, functioned in a video filmed by RISD president John Maeda at http://our.risd.edu/post/40765500312/i-visited-professor-deborah-coolidges-students.