Do you find yourself constantly striving to get the perfect time and temperature to cook your instant noodles? I mean, sure, sometimes you forget that your noodles are done and wind up eating a cold and nasty dinner of instant noodles, and they taste like shit reheated. The Instant Noodle Perfection Timer reminds you of when your noodles are done.

A LED screen and a vocal countdown is used to keep you from having a sodium-filled hot dinner, rather than a sodium-filled cold dinner. What have you got to lose other than your pride? Available for $25. — Andrew Dobrow

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Its name might make you think it’s some cheesy prop from a sci-fi movie, but the Phraselator P2 is no joke. Created by DARPA , the Phraselator can quickly translate your spoken English into any almost any language of your choosing.

The P2 model showcases a wind and shock resistant case that works smooth in any climate. Its 20 hour rechargeable lithium battery means you can walk around with the P2, translating remotely. 1 GB of storage and a USB port means that there is plenty of room to put your own custom language info into the device. Also a cool feature, there is no voice training needed, the Phraselator supposedly works for all voices and translates via a LED screen or through voice. — Andrew Dobrow

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Over at the Asian Games ceremony in Boha, Quatar in late 2006, Element Labs built a humoungous, gigantic, enormous, huge, spectacular, 45,000 square foot LED screen. The things that look like ants under the screen? Yeah, those are people.

In keeping with the circular structure of the stadium, the screen was designed to be curved. The entire screen is 165 meters wide along the curve, reaching 39 meters at its highest point. The screen is comprised of 20,000 individual Versa RAYs, which laid end to end would span 58 kilometers (over 36 miles). 762,000 individual LEDs were used, with a pixel pitch of 77 millimeters.

How no one noticed this marvel when it was happening is pretty spectacular. The pure mass of this thing is really staggering. — Andrew Dobrow
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We enjoy a DIY project just as much as the next gearhead, but this caught our eye instantly. Nothing catches a geek’s eye like the classic game of Pong. Mix that with a do it yourself mod project and you’ve got yourself an all-star product. The creator managed to fit all of the essential electronics in a 10mm thick wristwatch. The contraption manages to fit in a battery capable of a 25 hour charge, so it can be charged nightly for plenty of juice the next day. And surprisingly the LED screen runs continually instead of having to press a button to illuminate the time. Video after the jump.

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